Government Campaign: Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare is working to make this campaign a grand success across the country. He is ensuring that central government pensioners can easily get their benefits.
Government Campaign: To enhance the ease of living for Central Government pensioners, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare is actively promoting the use of Digital Life Certificate (DLC). (Jeevan Pramaan) This initiative started in 2014, allowing pensioners to deposit DLC using biometric devices.
Subsequently, the department collaborated with MeitY and UIDAI to develop a face authentication technology system based on Aadhaar data, thereby facilitating DLC submission from any Android-based smartphone.
This innovative technology was launched in November 2021, reducing pensioners’ dependence on external biometric devices and making the process more accessible through smartphones.
According to PIB, to create awareness among central government pensioners and pension disbursing officers about the use of DLC/Face Authentication technology for submission of Digital Life Certificate, the department has organized a nationwide campaign in 37 cities across India in November 2022. Started the campaign. The campaign was a success, more than 35 lakh DLCs were issued to Central Government pensioners.
Government launches massive campaign
Based on this success, now a nationwide campaign is going on from November 1 to November 30, 2023, which is being run at 500 locations in 100 cities and 50 lakh pensioners are expected to benefit from it. . This campaign is a collaborative effort involving 17 pension providing banks, Ministries/Departments, Pensioners Welfare Association, UIDAI and MeitY.
To ensure that even the most remote pensioners as well as very senior/sick/disabled pensioners can benefit from submission of Digital Life Certificate, comprehensive guidelines have been issued. These guidelines define the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders including Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, pension disbursing banks and pensioners’ associations.
What is this campaign being run?
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare is working to make this campaign a grand success in the entire country. He is ensuring that central government pensioners can easily get their benefits. It was told that officials of the department will visit key places across the country to assist pensioners in using the digital mode to submit their life certificates.
