Press
Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
01-June-2016 16:27 IST
Special Aadhaar Enrolment drive for Pensioners, from May 30 to June
10, 2016
Pensioners will
also get opportunity to seed data for digital life certificate
The Unique
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched a special enrolment
drive for pensioners who are yet to enroll for Aadhaar. The drive is being
conducted to enable Pensioners avail the convenience of Jeevan Pramaan, an
initiative of Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare, Government of
India.
Every year,
pensioners need to provide a life certificate to an authorized pension
disbursing agency such as a Bank, Post office etc., for receipt of pension. To
get a life certificate the pensioner is required to either personally present
oneself before the Pension Disbursing Agency or have the Life Certificate
issued by the department/authority where they served earlier and have it
delivered to the disbursing agency. This entails considerable hardship to the
senior Citizens.
Jeevan Pramaan, a digital life
certificate which utilises the Aadhaar identity platform, addresses this very
problem by digitizing the whole process of securing a life certificate. A
pensioner just needs to biometrically authenticate at the nearest centre. After
successful authentication, the digital life certificate is stored in a Life
Certificate Repository, which can be accessed by the Pension Disbursing
Authority.
To facilitate
pensioners to avail the facility of Jeevan Pramaan, which is based on Aadhaar Identity platform, UIDAI and
Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare have taken initiative to carry
out special enrolment drive for Pensioners through banks which are Registrars
for enrolment for Aadhaar as well as Pension Disbursing Authorities.
The banks which
include names like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda,
Allahabad Bank, Canara Bank, have also been asked to conduct special Aadhaar
seeding camps where Pensioners will be requested to provide their Aadhaar
details to their respective banks from which they draw pension so that they can
get a digital life certificate – Jeevan Pramaan.
The enrolment
drive and the Aadhaar seeding camp is being run from May 30 to June 10,
2016.
“We hold
special enrolment drives to help people who are yet to enrol for Aadhaar. This
particular exercise has been initiated to make sure pensioners get an Aadhaar
number if they still don’t have one and seed the Aadhaar details of pensioners
so that they can get a Jeevan Pramaan,” said Director General & Mission
Director of UIDAI, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey.
So far over
15.41 Lakh pensioners have already registered for the Aadhaar-enabled Jeevan
Pramaan service.
