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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

EXISTENCE CERTIFICATE

Dear Editor,

One of the today's issues is the submission of Existence Certificate.

This certificate needs to be certified by any of the following.

1.Gazetted Officer.  
2 Class-I officer of LIC  
3.HGA 
4.Development Officer with 5 years service as DO. 
5.Bank Manager 
6. Registered Doctors.

During the early years as pensioner, there is not much difficulty in obtaining the certificate as there are many younger colleagues in LIC offices who know the pensioners.

The difficulty starts after a few years when the serving younger colleagues, knowing the pensioners disappear because of their retirements or transfer elsewhere. This difficulty starts gaining momentum for the pensioners in the late seventies when many of them are unable to make any movement. Bank Managers remain busy during their working hours resulting in keeping the pensioners, approaching them for existence certificates, wait for hours.  More over, some of the Banks charge some amounts for such certificates.  Medical practitioners charge amounts equal to their consultation fees.

Gazetted officers are reluctant to issue existence certificate unless the pensioners are known to them personally. This problem is more relevant in metros like Chennai, Mumbai, kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangaore.

In view of this burning problem for the pensioners, the Associations / Federations should approach the CO for liberalising the requirement of Existence certificate by Specified officials (as mentioned above). The Central Government is considering dispensing with the attestation by gazetted officers and introducing the self attestation. Now the bank accounts can be opened with self attested copies of documents. Mobile Sims are activated on the basis of self attested documents.

Subir kumar Mazumder