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Jeevan Pramaan: Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners

In order to transform the urrently, more than 1 disbursing agencies like the bank, entire ecosystem of delivery crore families in following which their pension is can be classified as credited to their account. In order to of public services through pensioner families, get this life certificates, the individual C where the pension drawing the pension is required to the use of ICT, Government disbursed by the various government either personally present himself/ of India has unveiled an bodies forms the basis for their herself before the Pension Disbursing ambitious programme called income and sustainability. At present, Agency or get the Life Certificate . Jeevan Pramaan there are about 50 lakh pensioners issued by authority where they have of the Central Government and a served earlier and have it delivered to (Aadhar-based Digital Life similar number for the various State the disbursing agency. and UT Governments and various Certificate for pensioners), This very requirement of personally other government agencies. This also recently launched by Prime being present in front of disbursing includes pensioners from the various agency or getting a life certificate Minister Shri , public sector enterprises. In addition often becomes a major hurdle in the to this, the number of Army and is an important initiative process of seamless transfer of pension Defence Personnel drawing pension amount to the pensioners. It has been under the Digital India exceeds 25 lakhs. noted that it causes a lot of hardship programme that intends One of the major requisite for the and unnecessary inconvenience to benefit over a crore pensioners post their retirement particularly for the aged and infirm pensioners in the country. from the service, is to provide life pensioners who cannot always be in certificates to the authorized pension a position to present them in front The Prime Minister said that after the push towards self-certification, digital life certificate is another enabling mechanism which would benefit the common man.

Mohan Das Viswam Technical Director [email protected]

January 2015 | informatics.nic.in | 11 E-Gov Products and Services

of the particular authority to secure yyAadhaar Authentication their life certificates. In addition to The pensioner has to provide his/her this, many government employees biometrics, either a finger print or iris post their retirement choose to move for authentication. to different location either to be with their family or other reasons, hence yyLife Certificate causing a huge logistical issue when After successful authentication, a SMS it comes to accessing their rightful pension amount. acknowledgement is sent to the mobile number of the pensioners including Digital life Certificate for Pensioners their Jeevan Pramaan Certificate ID. scheme of the The certificates are stored in the Life known as Jeevan Pramaan, envisions Certificate Repository for making to address the root cause of this very it available anytime and anywhere problem by digitizing the whole for the pensioners and the Pension process of securing the life certificate. It aims to streamline the process of Disbursing Agencies. getting this certificate and making it yyAccess your Certificate hassle free and much easier for the pensioners. With this initiative the Pensioners can download a PDF copy pensioners requirement to physically of their certificate from the Jeevan present himself/herself in front of Pramaan website by providing the disbursing agency or the certification Jeevan Pramaan ID or authority will become a thing of the number. past, benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on yyPension Disbursing Agency unnecessary logistical hurdles. The Pension Disbursing Agency can access the Life Certificates from How it Works? the Jeevan Pramaan website, and Jeevan Pramaan uses the Aadhaar download the same. platform for biometric authentication yyElectronic Delivery of the pensioners. A successful The Life Certificates can also be and will be updated in the website authentication generates the Digital electronically delivered to the Pension in due course of time. As the Jeevan Life Certificate which gets stored in Disbursing Agency, without any Pramaan software upgrades over the the Life Certificate Repository. The manual intervention. For this, Pension air, therefore for new functionality Pension Disbursing Agencies can Disbursing Agency has to get in touch software will not require re-installation. access the certificate online. of Jeevan Pramaan team, to enable the The software application system will yyEnroll Yourself e-delivery facility. be made available to pensioners and The user has to first download Pensioners can register themselves other stakeholders on a large scale at the PC/Mobile application or from any location by using Android/ no extra cost. It can be operated on a alternatively visit the nearest Jeevan Windows PC based application personal computer or a smartphone, Pramaan Centre to get himself/herself available for download at https:// along with an inexpensive biometric registered. At the time of registration, jeevanpramaan.gov.in/. At present, reading device. This facility will also pensioner has to furnish necessary the Jeevan Pramaan Client application be made available at Common Service information like Aadhaar number, supports the Mantra & Morpho finger Centres, and other Aadhaar-enabled Pension Payment Order No., Bank print scanner and Iritec Iris scanner centres for the benefit of pensioners Account No., Bank Name and mobile for use with the software. Support residing in remote and inaccessible number. for other devices are being added areas.

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