Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 12: India Post Payments Bank has joined hands with the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) to participate in their nationwide Digital Life Certificate (DLC) campaign 3.0 from Nov.1 to 30, 2024, covering 800 cities and towns. This initiative aims to promote the increased use of digital process of face authentication technology and fingerprint biometric authentication, targeting all pensioners, including those in remote areas and provide convenience to the senior citizen pensioners, nearest to their home/ doorsteps.

DLC Campaign 3.0 aims to ensure that all pensioners, especially those residing in rural areas are able to submit their life certificates effortlessly. To achieve this, DoPPW has collaborated with Department of Posts and India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to provide DLC service at Post Offices/ pensioner’s doorstep/ DLC Camps by leveraging the vast network of Postmen and Gramin Dak Sevaks.

The campaign is being supported by various stakeholders, including Pensioners' Welfare Associations, UIDAI etc. This campaign will bring great comfort to pensioners as DLC eliminates the requirement of the pensioner to submit traditional paper-based certificates and provides an easy process for life certificate submission.

India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) had introduced the Doorstep Service of Digital Life Certificate in 2020 for generating Jeevan Pramaan for pensioners of all Central, State and Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), in coordination with the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare (DoPPW) and National Informatics Centre (NIC). This service, which is based on Aadhaar enabled biometric authentication is very useful for aged pensioners and reduces the turnaround time for issuance of Digital Life Certificate as they will not require making a physical visit to the Office of Pension Disbursing Agency. The pensioners will be able to generate the life certificate either by Doorstep Digital Life Certificate Service offered by India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) or by visiting the nearest Post Office.

All that the pensioner needs to do is to contact nearest Post Office or the Postman/ Gramin Dak Sewak of the nearest Post Office who may also visit the requester at the given address to provide doorstep service and generate the Digital Life Certificate. A nominal transaction fee of Rs.70/- including GST shall be charged for the DLC generation by the Postman/ Gramin Dak Sewak. Aadhaar number and Pension details are to be provided by the pensioner for this service. On completion of the certificate generation process, confirmation SMS will be received by the pensioner in his mobile number and the certificate can be viewed online at https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/ppouser/login after T+1 day.