India
Post is getting ready to issue Digital Life Certificate to pensioners. This facility can be availed from selected
Post Offices across the country. These
Post Offices are already supplied with fingerprint scanner for Aadhaar
authentication.
Digital
life Certificate for Pensioners, the scheme of the Government of India known as
Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners. Pensioners of Central Government, State
Government or any other Government organization can take benefit of this
facility.
Digital
life Certificate for Pensioners scheme of the Government of India known as
Jeevan Pramaan seeks to address this very problem by digitizing the whole
process of securing the life certificate. It aims to streamline the process of
getting this certificate and making it hassle free and much easier for the pensioners.
With this initiative the pensioners requirement to physically present himself /herself
in front of disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a
thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on
unnecessary logistical hurdles.
Pensioner’s
information like Pension Aadhaar number, Pensioner Name, PPO Number, Bank
Account detail, Address, Mobile number etc are fed into the system though web
based / client interface and finally pensioners person information are authenticated
using the Aadhaar number and pensioner has to put his finger on to the finger
print scanner or eye on the Iris scanner.
After
successful authentication, Pramaan ID / the transaction number is displayed on
the screen and same has is sent to Pensioner’s mobile as SMS from the portal.
The
portal generates Electronic Jeevan Pramaan for the successfully authenticated
pensioner and it is stored in the central Life Certificate Repository database.
The
disbursing Post Office or Bank can access and get the Jeevan Pramaan
certificate from the portal for his pensioners though the electronic data
transfer mechanism created between the portal and Bank server.
Pensioner
has to inform to the Post Office or Bank that his Jeevan Pramaan has been
generated through online registration from Jeevan Pramaan portal inorder to get
the benefit.
