Jeevan Pramaan Patra: The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, Government of India has launched the third and largest nationwide digital life certificate campaign in 800 cities and districts across India from 1 to 30 November. Lakhs of pensioners will benefit from this campaign of the government.
According to the information given by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, under the biggest campaign ever run by the government, more than 1.8 lakh pensioners have got their Digital Life Certificate (DLC) made on the very first day.
The country’s biggest DLC campaign
“This is the biggest DLC campaign till date,” said a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry. A total of 1.81 lakh DLCs were generated till Friday evening. The campaign is being run in collaboration with CGDA, Department of Telecommunications, Railways, UIDAI and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to reach out to all pensioners living in remote areas of the country.
In addition, “19 banks, 785 district post offices and 57 welfare associations” will also support the month-long campaign. The ministry said the campaign aims to “promote digital empowerment of pensioners using facial recognition technology”.
It was also said that during the campaign, technical support will be provided by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Unique Identification Authority of India.
Recognizing the faces of the elderly will be easy
The ministry said, “Facial recognition has been made more intuitive and convenient for senior pensioners and can be used on Android as well as iOS.”
This technology enables identification of the pensioner by facial scan using smartphone camera at home, thereby completing the process of DLC submission without the need for them to visit the bank or post office.
60 lakh DLC so far
The aim is to digitally empower pensioners using UIDAI’s face recognition application. In June, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) saw more than a three-fold increase in the number of EPS pensioners submitting facial authentication technology-based digital life certificates, from 2.1 lakh in 2022-23 to 6.6 lakh in 2023-24.
EPFO said that 6.6 lakh facial scan-based DLCs in 2023-24 are about 10 per cent of the total DLCs received during the year. In total, about 60 lakh DLCs were received from pensioners during the last financial year.
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