India Post’s proposal has given a sigh of relief to central government pensioners and various states, UTs, and other government agencies’ pensioners.
Good news for all central government and state government pensioners! The India Post had announced that pensioners and senior citizens will get a Life Certificate from the nearest post office. This will help pensioners and senior citizens from making rounds of the banks for life certificates, especially during the COVID pandemic.
India Post’s proposal has given a sigh of relief to central government pensioners and various states, UTs, and other government agencies’ pensioners.
The India Post tweeted: “Senior citizens can now easily avail the benefit of Jeevan Praman services at the nearest post office CSC counter.”
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.
More than 1 crore families in India can be classified as pensioner families, where the pension disbursed by the various government bodies forms the basis for their income and sustainability. There are about 50 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 Defence Personnel, drawing pension exceeds 25 lakhs. One of the major requisites for the pensioners post their retirement from service, is to provide life certificates to the authorised pension disbursing agencies like Banks, Post offices, etc., following which their pension is credited to their account.
In order to get this life certificate, the individual drawing the pension is required 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.
Locating Nearest Jeevan Pramaan Centre
A pensioner can visit the nearest post office and collect the Life Certificate from the CSC counter to continue drawing pension in the future.
You can locate the nearest Jeevan Pramaan center by sending an SMS from your mobile number at 7738299899. The text of the SMS will be JPL<PIN Code>. The pensioner will get a list of Jeevan Pramaan centers around the given PIN Code. After receiving the list, one can choose which Jeevan Pramaan center is the nearest and can visit there and get the Digital Life Certificate.
