Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Dated: 13th march,2015
Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme
Under the ‘Digital India Mission’, Government has launched ‘Jeevan Pramaan – an Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate’ for pensioners on 10.11.2014. This facility provides an option to the pensioners to submit their life certificate digitally by authenticating biometrically using UIDAI Database. The pension disbursing agencies integrated with the Jeevan Pramaan Portal will get access to digital life certificate. Pensioners need not GO to the person in the Pension Disbursing agency. BIO-metric authentication of Aadhaar Numbers for Pensioners is USED. All pensioners having Aadhaar number may avail this facility. More Than One crore BE Benefitted by the Scheme may Pensioners. Government has taken steps to bring A NUMBER of Awareness among Scheme such as the Pensioners publicity regarding the digital certificate through Life Leading Newspapers, Camps for Organization of Pensioners, with regular Meetings Pension Disbursing Agencies etc. This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in Lok Sabha today Written in reply to question A.
Source: PIB