Pensioners can choose their banks for pension; integrated pensioners' portal 'Bhavishya' launched

With the launch of Integrated Pensioners' Portal Bhavishya, Central Government Pensioners can now choose which bank they want to maintain their pension account in.

Presently only integrated with SBI, it will soon spread to all 16 pension disbursing Banks in the country. SBI pensioners, with the help of Bhavishya Portal for Pension Payment and Tracking System, can get all information and services at one place with single login.

Once it is available in all the banks, retirees can choose a bank and branch for opening an online pension account, check their monthly pension slips, form 16, status of life certificate as well as change their pension disbursing bank through Bhavishya.

Initially the services shall be available to 1.7 lakh Central Government Civil pensioners whose cases have been processed through Bhavishya and subsequently shall be extended to all the central government pensioners.
Bhavishya has recently been rated as the 3rd best portal among all Government of India service portals by National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA).

The present avatar of Bhavishya is the result of merger of many other pension portals such as Cpengrams, Anubhav, Anudaan, Sankalp & Pension Dashboard.

The Bhavishya platform was made mandatory for all central government departments since January 01, 2017. "This system, at present is being successfully implemented in the main Secretariat of 97 Ministries/Departments including 815 Attached Offices, along with 7,902 DDOs on board.

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