The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India has launched a nation-wide campaign for promotion of Digital Life Certificate for Central Government pensioners. In November 2021, Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Minister of State (PP) had launched the milestone Face Authentication Technique of submitting Life Certificate through any Android Mobile Phone. Now the department is launching a special nation- wide campaign for promoting the Life Certificate through Digital mode and to popularize the Face Authentication technique. All the registered Pensioners Associations, Pension Disbursing Banks, Ministries of Government of India and CGHS Wellness Centres have been directed to promote the Digital Life Certificate/Face Authentication Technique for submitting Life Certificate by organising special camps for ‘Ease of Living’ of pensioners.

During this ongoing campaign Digital Life Certificates submitted till 13.11.2022 are 47,66,735 and out of these, total DLCs generated through Face Authentication are 2,62,686. Further, the total DLCs submitted by Central Government pensioners are 18,18,289and out of this total DLCs generated through Face Authentication are1,61,158.

In this series, a Central Government team comprising of Dr. Pramod Kumar, Director and Shri Namo Narayan Meena, ASO, Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has arrived in Ahmedabad for conducting an awareness programme at SBI, Administrative Office, C N Vidyalaya, Ambawadi, on 15^th November, 2022. Prior to this, the team conducted an awareness campaign at Alka Puri Branch at Vadodara on 14^th November, 2022.

This campaign is being actively assisted by Sh. Rajiv Rathi, Deputy Director General, NIC who is providing round the clock technical guidance ensuring smooth conduct of the campaign. Also, the support and promotion by the representatives of SBI and other banks, UIDAI, PIB, DD News and AIR is valuable.  In Ahmedabad, momentum to this campaign is being provided by different Pensioners Associations including Posts and Telegraphs and Other Central Govt Pensioners' Association, spearheaded by its Secretary, Shri S.B. Patel and SBI Pensioners’ Association, Ahmedabad Unit, led by its General Secretary, Sh. S.C.Gor.

The central team has informed that earlier, life certificates had to be submitted in physical form and for thisold pensioners had to stand in queues outside the banks for hours. Now, it has become possible at the click of a button from the comfort of their homes. The central team has urged to bring certain document like Aadhaar Card, Registered Mobile Number for OTP, PPO Number and Account Number with Bank/Post Office especially if they are doing DLC through face authentication for the first time. This facility is also available to the pensioners of several other Pension Sanctioning Authorities includingState Government.

The central team has requested all the pensioners to visit official youtube channel of the department – DOPPW_INDIAOFFICIAL where two videos have been uploaded explaining the process of submitting the Life Certificate through Face Authentication Technique in simple language.

This campaign will be run by the department throughout the month of November and all pensioners are requested to avail this facility for submission of their Life Certificate through Face Authentication.

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