‘Face Recognition Expertise’ Used To Generate Pensioner’s Life Certificates: Dr Jitendra

NEW DELHI, Dec 11 : Division of Pension & Pensioners Welfare (DoP&PW) is presumably one of many first departments within the Govt sector to have began utilizing the most recent “Face Recognition Expertise” for establishing Aadhar primarily based identification of aged pensioners to generate “Digital Life Certificates”.
Disclosing this at present whereas addressing a press convention at Nationwide Media Centre right here, Union Minister of State (Impartial Cost) Science & Expertise; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Power and Area, Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned, the Authorities led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is understood to make optimum use of expertise in direction of bringing about ease of dwelling and dignity for the aged.
The Minister additionally briefed the media concerning the progress of the Digital Life Certificates (DLC) Marketing campaign 2.0 of the DoP&PW.
Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned that the Banks are offering doorstep service for submission of Digital Life Certificates (DLC) yearly to retired staff. Because of such applied sciences, the senior residents wouldn’t have to undergo the tedious means of submitting the life certificates. A lot of the functioning has been transformed on-line and to be able to usher in transparency, accountability and citizen participation, the human interface has been lowered to the naked minimal, he mentioned.
The DLC Marketing campaign 2.0 sought to Enhance Pensioners Welfare, Digital Life Certificates (Jeevan Pramaan), by use of Biometric and Iris primarily based on Aadhar database and the face authentication expertise. In 2021, the Division of Pension and Pensioners Welfare had adopted Face Authentication Expertise for era of DLCs utilizing Android Mobiles.
“This was an enormous step in direction of enhancing Ease of Dwelling of pensioners as they might now additionally submit Life Certificates by digital modes from the consolation of their residence, as a substitute of solely within the conventional mode of bodily Life Certificates by visiting Banks and Put up Places of work,” he mentioned.
Below the DLC Marketing campaign 2.0, DoP&PW collaborated with Pension Disbursing Banks, Ministries/ Departments, Pensioners’ Welfare Associations, UIDAI, MeitY from November 1-30, 2023. The DLC Marketing campaign was performed at 597 places in 100 cities throughout India. 297 Nodal Officers from Pension Disbursing Banks, 44 Pensioner Welfare Associations labored assiduously to efficiently implement the DLC Marketing campaign 2.0.
Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned that because of the Marketing campaign, a complete of greater than 1.17 crore DLCs throughout pensioners of all classes have been generated within the month of November, 2023, out of which, the variety of DLCs generated utilizing Face Authentication Approach is greater than 19.52 lakh.
“Of this, a complete of 38.99 lakh Central Authorities Pensioners generated DLCs, out of which, the variety of face authenticated DLCs is 9.76 lakh,” he mentioned.
Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned, greater than 24,000 pensioners above the age of 90 years used digital mode to submit Life Certificates for drawal of pension.
As per the devoted DLC Portal created by the Division, the main States for DLC era are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, having generated 5.07 lakh, 4.55 lakh and a pair of.65 lakh DLCs respectively. The main Banks for DLC era are State Financial institution of India and Punjab Nationwide Financial institution that are additionally the main Pension Disbursing Banks, with 7.68 lakh and a pair of.38 lakh DLCs respectively.
Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned, the Modi Authorities has additionally carried out away with about 2,000 out of date or redundant guidelines in direction of bringing about Ease of Dwelling for all residents.
“Household pension has been enabled with no service period bar of 10 years and divorced or separated daughters are additionally now enabled to obtain household pension,” he mentioned.
Dr Jitendra Singh mentioned, a number of steps have been taken for realising Prime Minister Modi’s imaginative and prescient for Bettering Pensioners Welfare with far-reaching Pension Reforms by notification of Pension Guidelines and Digital Empowerment of Pensioners.
“This contains the BHAVISHYA portal for well timed processing and sanction of Pension instances, DIRGHAYU app for well timed pension funds, Built-in Pensioner Portal for improved coordination with Banks and CPENGRAMS grievance portal for well timed redressal of Pensioner Grievances, ANUBHAV Awards for documenting administrative experiences, Pension Adalats are being periodically organised and Pre-Retirement Counselling Workshops are being held each quarter,” he mentioned.
To make sure that the good thing about utilizing digital modes for Life Certificates submission reaches pensioners in all elements of the nation, State capitals and main cities have been among the many 100 cities the place camps have been held at a number of places, which included Delhi, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Patna, Raipur, Goa, Ahmedabad, Shimla, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Ludhiana, Ajmer, Gangtok, Chennai, Hyderabad, Tripura, Lucknow and Dehradun amongst others. With a view to technologically empowering the pensioners, along with producing their DLCs, the method was additionally defined to them for future use.
Within the camps held by Pension Disbursing Banks and Pensioners’ Welfare Associations, in addition to of their visits to the houses/ hospitals to help aged/ sick pensioners, a number of success tales emerged, relating the satisfaction and luxury of the pensioners on the outreach to them.
In his tackle, Secretary, DoP&PW Shri V. Srinivas, mentioned the nationwide DLC Marketing campaign 2.0 represents a big milestone within the initiatives taken by the Division of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare in direction of guaranteeing Ease of Dwelling of pensioners.