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Under Secretary to Department of Pension and Pensioners Affairs Deepak Gupta has said that to assistance pensioners, the Union authorities has introduced Digital Life Certificate (DLC) which volition easiness the process and pensioners successful uploading their beingness certificates done mobile exertion Jeevan Praman.
Inaugurating a Digital Life Certificate run astatine SBI Main subdivision successful Dharwad connected Thursday, Mr. Gupta said that the inaugural has been taken to assistance trim the unreserved successful banks for submitting beingness certificates and besides to forestall radical from lasting successful agelong queues astatine banks for the purpose.
He said that the request of pensioners being personally contiguous successful beforehand of the disbursing bureau oregon getting a beingness certificate was a large hurdle successful the process of seamless transportation of pension amount.
“It has been noted that it causes a batch of hardship and unnecessary inconvenience, peculiarly for the aged and infirm pensioners who cannot ever beryllium successful a presumption to contiguous themselves successful beforehand of the peculiar authorization to unafraid their beingness certificate. Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners Scheme of the Union authorities known arsenic Jeevan Pramaan seeks to code this precise occupation by digitising the full process of securing a beingness certificate,” helium said.
He said that the inaugural is aimed astatine streamlining the process of getting the certificate and making it hassle-free and easier for pensioners.
“With the caller initiative, the request of pensioners being physically contiguous earlier the disbursing bureau oregon the certification authorization volition go a happening of the past. It volition besides trim the unnecessary logistic hurdles,” Mr. Gupta said.
AGM of State Bank of India Umesh Prasad Shah said that the slope aims astatine bringing 2.20 lakh pensioners nether this caller Digital Life Certificate run during the existent year.
“We person strengthened the strategy truthful that Digital Life Certificates tin beryllium submitted from location oregon from the nearest centre,” helium said.
Regional Manager of SBI Suma G.K., elder officials Ram Mohan, Vidyasagar Dixit, Rupresh Mishra and others were present.
Scores of pensioners took payment of the inaugural connected the inaugural day.
