Government of India
Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology
02-February-2016 15:00 IST
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: