CHANDIGARH: The Defence welfare department of Punjab government is going to start Special Drive For Ex-Servicemen and the widows to Upload their Live Certificates. Disclosing this here today Mohinder Bhagat said that welfare of the ex-servicemen, widows and their dependents living in Punjab is always on the priority list and it has been making efforts from time to time to fulfill this genuine demands.
At present there are total of 4, 33, 000 ex-servicemen and widows in Punjab. In the recent past, the pension of ex-servicemen and widows is disbursed through the SPARSH system. All these pensioners are required to upload their Live Certificates on SPARSH in the month of November so that their pension wil remain continue.
The Cabinet Minister informed that large number of ex-servicemen and their widows are not familiar with modern tools of information, due to which they are facing difficulties in uploading their live certificates. Pertinently, the Sparash system has been adopted for pension disbursement recently and the pensioners didn’t have complete knowledge about it. For the convenience of these pensioners, uploading their live certificates through Sparash system is being carried out in all District Defence Services Offices from 11 November 2024 to 22 November 2024 under the supervision of Cdr Baljinder Virk (Retd), District Defense Services Welfare Officer, Amritsar (Nodal Officer). Special camps are being organized so that they do not face any sort of difficulty in uploading live certificates through Sparash system.
During this Special Camps, Help Desks will also be set up separately at all the District Defence Services Welfare Offices, under Sparsh banner. Necessary IT infrastructure is being arranged for this purpose. Along with this, it is also informed that we have contacted ICICI Bank which has agreed to provide their teams for establishing the Help Desks.