Post offices to soon help pensioners in seeding Aadhaar

New Delhi: Post offices across the country will soon be providing assistance to pensioners in linking their their accounts to Aadhaar numbers.

Post offices will soon be providing assistance to pensioners in linking their their accounts to Aadhaar numbers.

Besides, the Centre will be taking steps to ensure quick grant of Aadhaar numbers to pensioners in north eastern areas.

This was decided by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in a video conference held last week with representatives of pensioners' association on various matters concerning them.

It was pointed out by Central Government Pensioners Association, Jaipur that people who are drawing their pensions from post offices are yet to carry out seeding of Aadhaar due to lack of facilities for linking of Aadhaar card in post offices, according to minutes of the meeting.

The associations were assured that the ministry will deal with this issue separately with Department of Posts, it said.

"The ministry has taken up the matter to ensure that post offices across the country help in seeding of Aadhaar numbers of pensioners on priority basis," a senior Personnel Ministry official said.

During the conference, it was pointed out that the linking has not been possible in majority of cases because of non-availability of Aadhaar cards in north east area.

It was then decided that Registrar General of India will be informed for speeding up registration process in the north eastern region, the minutes said.

There are about 58 lakh central government pensioners across the country.

"The associations were requested to get their members' Aadhaar card linked with their pension accounts wherever this has not been done. They are also requested to spread the message and persuade even those pensioners who are not their members to get their Aadhaar card linked with the pension account," it said.

All the pensioners' associations were also asked to continue to work towards special cleanliness drive with the help of municipal corporation and resident societies, and create awareness among the public through their own resources, the minutes said.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) issues Aadhaar--a 12-digit unique identification number--which acts as a proof of identity and address, anywhere in the country.

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Special Aadhaar Enrolment drive for Pensioners, from May 30 to June 10, 2016

Pensioners will also get opportunity to seed data for digital life certificate The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched a special enrolment drive for pensioners who are yet to enroll for Aadhaar. The drive is being conducted to enable Pensioners avail the convenience of Jeevan Pramaan, an initiative of Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare, Government of India. Every year, pensioners need to provide a life certificate to an authorized pension disbursing agency such as a Bank, Post office etc., for receipt of pension. To get a life certificate the pensioner is required to either personally present oneself before the Pension Disbursing Agency or have the Life Certificate issued by the department/authority where they served earlier and have it delivered to the disbursing agency. This entails considerable hardship to the senior Citizens. Jeevan Pramaan, a digital life certificate which utilises the Aadhaar identity platform, addresses this very problem by digitizing the whole process of securing a life certificate. A pensioner just needs to biometrically authenticate at the nearest centre. After successful authentication, the digital life certificate is stored in a Life Certificate Repository, which can be accessed by the Pension Disbursing Authority. To facilitate pensioners to avail the facility of Jeevan Pramaan, which is based on Aadhaar Identity platform, UIDAI and Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare have taken initiative to carry out special enrolment drive for Pensioners through banks which are Registrars for enrolment for Aadhaar as well as Pension Disbursing Authorities. The banks which include names like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, Allahabad Bank, Canara Bank, have also been asked to conduct special Aadhaar seeding camps where Pensioners will be requested to provide their Aadhaar details to their respective banks from which they draw pension so that they can get a digital life certificate – Jeevan Pramaan. The enrolment drive and the Aadhaar seeding camp is being run from May 30 to June 10, 2016. “We hold special enrolment drives to help people who are yet to enrol for Aadhaar. This particular exercise has been initiated to make sure pensioners get an Aadhaar number if they still don’t have one and seed the Aadhaar details of pensioners so that they can get a Jeevan Pramaan,” said Director General & Mission Director of UIDAI, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey. So far over 15.41 Lakh pensioners have already registered for the Aadhaar-enabled Jeevan Pramaan service. PIB

Govt all set to launch special colour-coded Aadhaar card for disabled

New Delhi: The government is all set to launch special colour-coded Aadhaar card for disabled for easy linkage to the government’s schemes and services.

Aadhaar card will be marked by three different colours — red, blue and yellow to indicate the degree of disability.

The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry is likely to launch the process for registration of disabled persons on a centralised e-platform to issue Unique Disabled Identity (UDID) cards.

The card will be marked by three different colours — red, blue and yellow to indicate the degree of disability.

First Aadhaar cards are likely to be delivered in August in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, which is the chosen district for the pilot project.

According to officials, rough estimates put the number of the disabled persons having disability certificate at not more than one crore. The UDID portal is expected to create real time data for planning and disbursal of benefits to the disabled.

The UDID portal will be launched in the public domain in June for registration at the district level and the first cards are likely to be handed out to eligible persons in mid-August. The cards will be marked by a colour bar at one end.

Red colour will indicate disability of 80% and above, blue for disability between 40% and 80% and yellow for disability below 40%.

It has been designed by National School of Design, Ahmedabad. It will have a hologram meshed in to prevent any attempts at duplication.

All applicants will be certified after due verification by the CMO and only then the UDID will be generated.

Considering that everyone may not have access to the online platform, offline applications will also be accepted. “The database will be unique hence there will be no chance of duplication,” an official explained.

The states that will be covered in the first phase include UP, Haryana, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, Kerala, Tripura, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu. The remaining states will be covered by 2018.

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