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. The pensioners need not go to the
pension disbursing agency in person.
Aadhaar numbers is used for bio-metric
authentication of pensioners. All pensioners having Aadhaar number may
avail this facility. More than one crore pensioners may be benefitted by
the scheme.
Government has taken a number of steps
to bring awareness among the pensioners regarding the digital life
certificate scheme such as publicity through leading newspapers,
organization of camps for pensioners, regular meetings with pension
disbursing agencies etc.
This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha,
Minister of State in Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question
in the Lok Sabha today.
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