Press
Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology
02-February-2016 15:00 IST
Jeevan Pramaan- A Hit With Pensioners
Jeevan Pramaan (https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/) provides a big
relief to all pensioners. A pensioner can now digitally provide Annual Life
Certificate to the authorities for continuity of pension instead of presenting
himself physically or through a Life Certificate issued by specified
authorities every year. Lakhs of pensioners on various schemes are already
benefitting from it.
Launched
by the Prime Minister on 10th Nov 2014, nearly 12.5 Lakhs pensioners have
registered for Digital Life Certificate (DLC) in about a year. Interestingly
the enrolled pensioners come from different districts of the country showing
the interest the facility has generated all over the country including in far
flung rural and hilly districts. Started with Civil pensioners of Central
Government only, several other pensioner schemes have adopted Jeevan Pramaan
and provide this facility of Digital Life Certificate to these pensioners.
Presently apart from civil Central Government employees, Defence services,
Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), Post Offices, Railways, Defence
Pensioners Disbursement Office (DPDOs), several PSUs including Mumbai Port
Trust, Chennai Port Trust and New Delhi Municipal Council are providing this
service.
State Governments have also recognized the potential of Jeevan Pramaan and adopted the service. State Governments of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Pondicherry, Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar, Rajasthan and Jharkhand have already started providing these services.
Jeevan Pramaan service is provided by NIC through a Central Portal developed on Open source. The platform is highly scalable. Developed using in-house manpower, the portal has been developed and maintained free of cost to all the user agencies and is also free for pensioners.
State Governments have also recognized the potential of Jeevan Pramaan and adopted the service. State Governments of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Pondicherry, Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar, Rajasthan and Jharkhand have already started providing these services.
Jeevan Pramaan service is provided by NIC through a Central Portal developed on Open source. The platform is highly scalable. Developed using in-house manpower, the portal has been developed and maintained free of cost to all the user agencies and is also free for pensioners.
In Jeevan
Pramaan a pensioner can digitally show that he or she is alive using his/her
biometrics. Biometric devices are available in CSC’s, Bank branches, Pensioner
associations, Govt. offices etc. More over any citizen can also purchase a
finger print scanner and do the identification from home. A typical finger
print scanner currently costs around Rs. 2600/- only and the prices are
expected to come down in future. The usefulness of Jeevan Pramaan will increase
even further as the biometric authentication device gets integrated with mobile
phones.
All
pension disbursing organizations, which have a requirement of periodic life
certificate to continue disbursing pension are welcome to join this free offering.
For more
details they are required contact Ms Nandita Chaudhri, DDG, NIC (Email: )
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