Central government happy news for pensioners!
Central government happy news for pensioners!The central government has announced that the pension portals of the pension granting banks will be integrated."To ensure ease of life for pensioners, the pension websites of all pensioner banks will be integrated into the integrated pensioners website of the Department of Pensions and Pensioners," said Secretary Pensions and Pensioners Srinivas.Addressing the inauguration ceremony of bank of India's Integrated Pensioners Portal, he said that the 'Pension and Pensioners Welfare Department' is taking various initiatives to improve the welfare of pensioners. wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW">digital empowerment of pensioners is one such initiative, said Srinivas, which is being implemented through various channels like wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW">digital lifetime certificates and Bhavishya portal.Pursuant to the objectives of transparency, digitization and service delivery, Bhavishya platform has ensured complete digitization of pension processing and payment, enabling the pensioner from filing his documents online to issuing PPO in electronic form and going to DigiLocker. 'Bavishya' platform, an integrated online pension processing system, has been made mandatory for all central government departments from 01.01.2017. The system is currently being successfully implemented in 98 Ministries/Departments with 870 attached offices and 8,174 district Development Officers.In order to reduce the problems data-faced by the pensioners in relation to the banks like bank transfer, life certificate, pension slip, form 16, information about pension receipt, the websites of the pensioner banks are being integrated with the integrated pensioner website of the welfare department.Integration of Pension Portal of SBI, bank of Baroda, punjab National bank, Canara bank with Bhavishya Portal has been completed. Through this integration, bank of india pensioners will be provided with services like pension slip, life certificate, balance and drawn statement and Form-16 at one place through integrated pensioners website. In future, most of the pensioner banks will be integrated with the integrated pensioners portal.