STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: With online attestation facility, all the pensioners/family pensioners having valid Aadhaar can submit their life certificates digitally.
“The office of the Lieutenant Governor, J&K has received suggestion during the “Awaam Ki Awaaz” regarding online attestation facility of life certificate(s) for pensioners,” read a circular issued by Vivek Bharadwaj, Financial Commissioner, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department.
“Life certificates are required to be provided to the pension disbursing agencies, like Banks etc. for disbursement of pension and it causes a lot of hardships and unnecessary inconvenience for the aged and infirm pensioners. Digital Life Certificate seeks to address this problem by digitizing the whole process of securing the life certificate. With this initiative the pensioner’s presence before the pension disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of past,” it stated.
“The Pensioner can download the Jeevan Pramaan Windows and Android client software from Jeevan Pramaan website. The client software will take care of registration for the life certificate, for authentication it will use the Aadhaar Biometric Authentication platform,” it stated and added, “Submission of Life Certificate Digitally through Gol UMANG App on Mobile: Pensioners have to download UMANG App from Google play store/App Store, search Jeevan Pramaan and click on “generate life certificate”. Pensioner Authentication page will open and required information to be fed for generation of Digital Life Certificate.”
“The Pensioners shall visit nearest CSC or Aadhaar Seva Kendra and provide Aadhaar Number, Mobile Number, Pension Payment Order (PPO) Number, Account Number & Name of Pension Sanctioning Authority and then provide bio-metrics (Fingerprint). On successful Aadhaar based biometric authentication, Jeevan Pramaan will be generated with a unique Id called Pramaan Id as acknowledgement,’ read the circular.
