Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate (Jeevan Pramaan)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE

CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE

TRIKOOT-II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE

NEW DELHI – 110 066

PHONES:26174596,26174456,26174438

CPAO/IT & Tech/Jeevan Praman/2015-16/1776

10-03-2016

Office Memorandum

Subject: Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate (Jeevan Pramaan).

A reference is invited to this office O.M.CPAO/Tech/Jeevan Pramaan/2014-15/218-259 dated 20/03/2015 (Copy enclosed) on the above mentioned subject whereby all the banks were advised to seed the pensioners’ Aadhaar numbers with their PPO and bank accounts so that online biometric authentication system of submission of life certificate Jeevan Pramaan may be implemented successfully. This task was to be completed before November, 2015. However, status report of the quarter ending December, 2015 reveals that only 44.54% of pension accounts were seeded which slightly increased during january & February 2016. As on 04.03.2016 48.80% of total pension accounts have been seeded which is much below the target of hundred percent seeding.

Further the status report of Aadhaar seeding for quarter ending September, 2015, December, 2015 and period endind 4th March, 2016 reveals that only eight banks have shown further progress with reference to the status report of September,2015. As this is continues process and should not be stopped, Banks should pursue the matter with pensioners by making them aware of the benefits of registering their Aadhaar numbers to banks so that they voluntarily register their Aadhaar numbers with banks. Banks should invariably send weekly progress reports to CPAO on each Friday as already advised to them.

Therefore, all the banks are advised to make further efforts to increase the Aadhaar seeding of Pensioners accounts. It may also be ensured that for all fresh PPOs having Aadhaar numbers, sent from CPAO, Aadhaar seeding of pensioners account with Aadhaar number is done.

Further, the status of seeding of Aadhaar numbers may invariably be shown in the e-scrolls, Format-F and updated master data.

Sd/-

(Subhash Chandra)

Controller Of Accounts

Source:http://cpao.nic.in/pdf/cpao_it_tech_jeevan_praman_1776.pdf

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Jeevan Pramaan - A Hit With Pensioners

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

Jeevan Pramaan -  A Hit With Pensioners 

Jeevan Pramaan (https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/) provides a big relief to all pensioners. A pensioner can now digitally provide Annual Life Certificate to the authorities for continuity of pension instead of presenting himself physically or through a Life Certificate issued by specified authorities every year. Lakhs of pensioners on various schemes are already benefitting from it. 

Launched by the Prime Minister on 10th Nov 2014, nearly 12.5 Lakhs pensioners have registered for Digital Life Certificate (DLC) in about a year. Interestingly the enrolled pensioners come from different districts of the country showing the interest the facility has generated all over the country including in far flung rural and hilly districts. Started with Civil pensioners of Central Government only, several other pensioner schemes have adopted Jeevan Pramaan and provide this facility of Digital Life Certificate to these pensioners. Presently apart from civil Central Government employees, Defence services, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), Post Offices, Railways, Defence Pensioners Disbursement Office (DPDOs), several PSUs including Mumbai Port Trust, Chennai Port Trust and New Delhi Municipal Council are providing this service. 

State Governments have also recognized the potential of Jeevan Pramaan and adopted the service. State Governments of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Pondicherry, Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar, Rajasthan and Jharkhand have already started providing these services. 

Jeevan Pramaan service is provided by NIC through a Central Portal developed on Open source. The platform is highly scalable. Developed using in-house manpower, the portal has been developed and maintained free of cost to all the user agencies and is also free for pensioners. 

In Jeevan Pramaan a pensioner can digitally show that he or she is alive using his/her biometrics. Biometric devices are available in CSC’s, Bank branches, Pensioner associations, Govt. offices etc. More over any citizen can also purchase a finger print scanner and do the identification from home. A typical finger print scanner currently costs around Rs. 2600/- only and the prices are expected to come down in future. The usefulness of Jeevan Pramaan will increase even further as the biometric authentication device gets integrated with mobile phones. 

All pension disbursing organizations, which have a requirement of periodic life certificate to continue disbursing pension are welcome to join this free offering. 

For more details they are required contact Ms Nandita Chaudhri, DDG, NIC (Email: ) 

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No proposal to discontinue the Digital Life Certificate for the Pensioners

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

No proposal to discontinue the Digital Life Certificate for the Pensioners

There is a report in a section of press that while inaugurating an Awareness Workshop on the online Pension Sanction and Payment Tracking System “BHAVISHYA”, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the practice of submitting Digital Life Certificate for continuation of pensions will soon be done away with.

Strongly rebutting the report, it is stated that Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has never ever expressed any opinion on the issue at any platform and, therefore, the question of having made such a statement does not arise at all.

It is clarified that, as of now, the government has no proposal to discontinue the Digital Life Certification for the pensioners.

It is to be stated that “Jeevan Pramaan” – a facility for submission of digital of life certificates by pensioners has been launched in November 2014. This is a voluntary facility provided in addition to existing provisions available for submission of life certificates. Till date 9,62,910 Digital Life Certificates have been furnished by pensioners.

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Use of modified format of Life Certificate by all Banks

CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE

TRIKOOT-II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE,

NEW DELHI-110066

PHONES : 26174596, 26174456, 26174436

CPAO/IT&Tech/Jeevan Praman/2015-16/1680

dated 09.11.2015

Office Memorandum

Subject:- Use of modified format of Life Certificate by all banks

Attention is invited to this office OM No. CPAO/IT&Tech/Scheme Booklet/2015-16/1666 dated 16.10.2015 directing the banks to ensure that modified format of Life Certificate is used by all paying branches which also provides for acknowledgment to Pensioners. Vide Correction slip no. 24, dated 12.10.2015, the Life Certificate has been modified and circulated to all concerned. The updated format of Life Certificate has also been provided on CPAO’s website i.e. www.cpao.nic.in.

It has been noticed that some banks are still using their own or old format of Life Certificate which is not proper. Therefore, Heads of Government Accounts/Business Department/Head of CPPCs of all the banks are requested once again to issue urgent instructions to all their branches to use only modified format of Life Certificate prescribed by CPAO and provide acknowledgment to Pensioners.

This issues with the approval competent authority.

Sd/-

(Vijay Singh)

Sr. Accounts Officer (Tech)

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Aadhaar-based biometric verification system – Jeevan Pramaan

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions

Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

Message

In November, 2014, the Prime Minister has launched an Aadhaar-based biometric verification system “Jeevan Pramaan” to enable pensioners to submit a digital Life Certificate on-line. This is an important step in realising the vision of Digital India. This facility has been provided in addition to the other existing methods of submitting Life Certificate.

2. “Jeevan Pramaan” aims at sparing the pensioners and family pensioners the trouble of visiting bank or any other pension disbursing agency for submission of Life Certificates. It is possible to submit the Life Certificate from personal computers and laptops or by visiting a conveniently located Common Service Centre. Further, banks will ensure authenticity of pension and other payments by linking Aadhaar number with bank accounts and PPO numbers.

3. All the pensioners/family pensioners are, therefore, advised to get themselves and their family members registered for Aadhaar and furnish this information to the Pension Disbursing Authority. This exercise may be completed at an early date so as to avoid inconvenience at the time of submission of Life Certificate in November, 2015.

4. For further details please visit https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in.

Sd/-

(Vandana Sharma)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Source:http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/PPWE_220415_E.pdf

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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 

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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Digital Certificate for Pensioners

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Finance 

05-December-2014 16:58 IST

Digital Certificate for Pensioners 

            Under the “Digital India Mission” Government of India has launched a Jeevan Pramaan application on 10.11.2014. the facility provides an option to a pensioner to give his lifr certificate remotely through the Jeevan Pramaan portal (https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/). Aadhaar Number is used for authentication of pensioners. As a result of this facility the pensioner is not required to present himself before his pension disbursing agency or produce other documents that he is alive.

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Digital Life certificate for Pensioners – Important FAQ

Digital Life certificate for Pensioners – Important FAQ

What is Jeevan Pramaan?

Jeevan Pramaan is computer generated digital life certificate for pensioner. Jeevan Pramaan Certificate is produced for individual pensioner using his Biometric Credentials.

How is this different from traditional Life Certificate issued by Govt Officers/ Agencies?

For this certificate individual pensioner has not to present himself/ herself in front of seniors authorised Officers. This can be generated even from home. Only you need a internet connection and Biometric devices

How can I create Jeevan Pramaan if I do not have internet connection?

Visit your nearest Citizen Service Centre or designated Offices (in Delhi) and get your self registered. (details available on site using locate a centre link)

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Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners from Jeevan Pramaan website

Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners from Jeevan Pramaan website

Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners. Pensioners of Central Government, State Government or any other Government organization can take benefit of this facility.

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