Jeevan Pramaan Life Certificate

Jeevan Pramaan Life Certificate, 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.

More than One Crore families in India can be classify as pensioner families. Where the pension disbursed by the various government bodies forms the basis for their income and sustainability. There are about Fifty Lakh pensioners of the Central Government. And a similar number of the various State and UT Governments. And various other government agencies. This includes pensioners from the various public sector enterprises. In addition to this Army and Defense Personnel drawing pension exceeds Twenty-five lakhs.

Jeevan Pramaan one of the major requisites for the pensioners. Post their retirement from service is to provide life certificates to the authorized pension disbursing agencies. Like Banks, Post offices etc., following which their pension is credit to their account. In order to get this life certificate. The individual drawing the pension is require to either personally present oneself before the Pension Disbursing Agency. OR have the Life Certificate issued by authority where they have served earlier. And have it delivered to the disbursing agency.

This very requirement of personally being present in front of the disbursing agency or getting a life certificate. Often becomes a major hurdle in the process of seamless transfer of pension amount to the pensioner. It has been noted that it causes a lot of hardship and unnecessary inconvenience. Particularly for the aged and infirm pensioners. Who cannot always be in a position to present themselves? In front of the particular authority to secure their life certificate. In addition to this a lot of government employees post their retirement. Choose to move to a different location either to be with their family or other reasons. Hence, causing a huge logistical issue when it comes to accessing their rightful pension amount.

Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners Scheme of the Government of India. Known as Jeevan Pramaan. Seeks to address this problem by digitizing the whole process of securing the life certificate. It aims to streamline the process of getting this certificate. And making it hassle-free and much easier for the pensioners. With this initiative the pensioner’s requirement to physically present himself/herself in front of the disbursing agency. OR the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way. And cutting down on unnecessary logistical hurdles.