New Delhi: V Shrinivas, the Secretary of the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (P&PW), recently revealed plans to integrate pension portals from all pension disbursing banks. The Integrated Pensioners’ Portal of the Bank of India is expected to simplify access to pension-related services by centralising them.
This initiative was announced on April 26, 2024, during the launch of the portal, where Shrinivas stated, “Pension portals of all pension disbursing banks to be integrated in the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal of Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare to ensure ease of living of pensioners.”
During his speech, Shrinivas mentioned the different initiatives already taken by the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, including the Digital Life Certificates and Bhavishya Portal to digitally empower pensioners.
Introduced on January 1, 2017, the Bhavishya Portal ensures end-to-end digitisation of pension processing and aligns with the goals of optimising transparency, digitisation and service delivery. It was recognised as 3rd ranked Central Government e-Governance Service Delivery Portal by the NeSDA Assessment 2021.
The platform has already been implemented in 98 Ministries/Departments, with 870 Attached offices and 8,174 DDOs on board.
Pension disbursing banks are integrating their websites with the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare’s Integrated Pensioners Portal to address issues like changing banks, checking life certificate status, accessing pension slips, Form 16, and pension receipt information from a single window.
Major banks such as the State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank, and Canara Bank have already completed the task of integrating with the Bhavishya portal.
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