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Department of Pension & Pensioner’s Welfare to conduct Nationwide Digital Life Certificate Campaign 4.0 from 1st to 30th November, 2025

Department of Pension & Pensioner’s Welfare to conduct Nationwide Digital Life Certificate Campaign 4.0 from 1st to 30th November, 2025

Pensioners have to submit Life Certificate every year in the month of November for continuation of pension. The previous DLC Campaign 3.0 held in 845 cities in November, 2024 witnessed 1.62 crore DLCs submissions. Department of Pension & Pensioner’s Welfare (DoPPW) will be conducting the 4th Nation-wide Digital Life Certificate Campaign which will be held in more than 1850 districts/cities/towns (2500 camp locations) across India from November 1-30, 2025. The department has notified comprehensive guidelines for the Campaign through O.M. dated 30th July, 2025. The Campaign will be held in collaboration with Pension Disbursing Banks, India Post Payments Bank, Pensioners’ Welfare Associations, CGDA, DoT, Railways, DoP, EPFO, UIDAI & MeitY with the aim of touching all the pensioners in remotest corners of the country.

Today, Shri. V. Srinivas, Secretary, DoPPW reviewed preparations for the forthcoming campaign. It is informed that. IPPB will be holding Camps at 1600 District/Sub-divisional Post offices through its vast network of 1.8 lakh postmen and Gramin Dak Sewaks. IPPB also provides doorstep DLC services. 19 Pension Disbursing Banks will also hold camps at 315 cities at more than 900 locations. 57 Pension Welfare Associations will play a crucial role by mobilizing pensioners for the camps. Concerned Ministries/Departments, i.e. D/o Telecommunications, Ministry of Railways, D/o Posts, Ministry of Defence (CGDA) & EPFO will also organize camps throughout the country at identified locations.

Detailed breakup of State-wise/Bank-wise where camps will be held is as follows:

State-wise

 

Bank-wise

Name of State/UT

No. of Cities/Towns

Name of Bank

 No. of Cities/Towns

Uttar Pradesh

170

State Bank of India

82

Madhya Pradesh

127

Punjab National Bank

31

Bihar

114

Bank of india

27

Odisha

110

Indian Bank

24

Maharashtra

106

Bank of Baroda

24

West Bengal

102

Union Bank of India

20

Karnataka

97

Bank of Maharashtra

16

Rajasthan

95

Central Bank of India

16

Tamil Nadu

85

Canara Bank

12

Andhra Pradesh

81

HDFC Bank

12

Gujarat

76

ICICI Bank

11

Assam

74

Indian Overseas Bank

10

Telangana

73

Punjab and Sind Bank

6

Jharkhand

69

Axis Bank

6

Chhattisgarh

68

UCO Bank

5

Punjab

54

J&K Bank

4

Haryana

53

Bandhan Bank

5

Arunachal Pradesh

40

IDBI

2

Kerala

38

Kotak Mahindra Bank

2

Himachal Pradesh

35

 

Uttarakhand

30

Meghalaya

22

Tripura

22

Nagaland

21

Manipur

19

Mizoram

13

Sikkim

5

Goa

4

Jammu and Kashmir

38

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

6

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

4

Ladakh

4

Chandigarh

1

Delhi

1

Puducherry

1

Total

1858

Total

315