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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(Release ID :117040)
(Release ID :117040)
Source:-PIB
