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16/06/22 07:09 AM IST

Bhavishya, a Portal for Pension Payment and Tracking System

In News 
  • Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology informed that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare will soon launch Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Common single Pension Portal for the benefit of pensioners and elder citizens. 

Features of the Portal 
  • AI supported portal will send automatic alerts to pensioners and superannuated elder citizens.
  • This will  help seamless processing, tracking and disbursal of pension.
  • Portal will not only enable constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country but will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for prompt response.

Bhavishya Portal 
  • ‘Bhavishya’ platform was made mandatory for all central government departments since 2017.
  • Bhavishya 8.0 was released in August, 2020 with this new feature to PUSH the ePPO in Digilocker.
  • Bhavishya’ is the first application to use the Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology of Digilocker and 3892 e-PPOs have been pushed to Digilocker till date.
  • Bhavishya provides an option to retiring employees for linking their Digilocker account with “Bhavishya” to get e-PPO.
  • This initiative has created a permanent record safe from destruction of pensioners. 
  • The ‘Bhavishya’ system has now been made available on a Mobile App, thereby making it simple especially for those Para Military Forces who are out in the fields to keep track of their pension cases.
Source- PIB 

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