The ministry said SPARSH is a centralized sanction, claim and pension disbursement system with easy verification and correction of dates through self-verification. It is a digital process for pensioner identification.
Pensioners Pension Update : There is important news for the pensioners of the Ministry of Defence. Defense pensioners will have to complete the process of annual identification by February 20, the Ministry of Defense has issued instructions in this regard. Pensioners who have submitted their life certificates can check the updates by visiting the SPARSH portal.
Actually, to continue the monthly pension under the Ministry of Defense, it is necessary to submit Annual Identification or Life Certificate, in such a situation, all the defense pensioners receiving pension through System for Pension Administration or SPARSH should complete the Annual Identification by 20 February. Will have to do it, otherwise there may be a hindrance in the pension.
These instructions issued
The Ministry informed that the Ministry had earlier approved the extension of pension payment by 3 months for those pensioners of the banks who migrated to SPARSH and those identified in November 2022. 390366 Defense Pensioners who are pensioners through SPARSH have not yet completed their Annual Identification as per the information available with Defense Accounts Department. The same legacy pensioners (retired before 2016) who have not yet gone to SPARSH can Certificates can be submitted in the same way as it has been done in previous years.
The ministry said SPARSH is a centralized sanction, claim and pension disbursement system with easy verification and correction of dates through self-verification. It is a digital process for pensioner identification.
SPARSH is a web-based system
SPARSH is a web-based system for processing pension claims and crediting pension directly into the bank accounts of defense pensioners without any external intermediary. This system is being implemented by the Ministry.
