online application for senior citizen certificate

Presentation By:

Pooja Gaikwad (DySP)

Presentation topic:

Senior citizen certificate

Senior citizen certificate

Criteria:

•Persons aged 60 or above and

residing alone or with spouse.

•Person should be resident of

Maharashtra.

Benefits attached:

• Railway concession - 30% (60 Years)

• Maharashtra State Transport - 50% (65 Years)

• Air travel concession - 50% on only basic fare (65 Years)

• Some private hospitals give discount - 30% (60 Years)

• Govt. hospitals give treatment free of cost - (60 years)

• Banks give extra interest - ½ % (60 Years)

• High court will give priority hearing (65 Years)

• Maharashtra professional tax - 100% (65 years)

• M. T. N. L. - 25% discount on monthly rentals (65 years)

• Railways have separate queue for senior citizens

• Income tax relief

• Old age home- admission free or at nominal cost.

How to apply online? . https://aaplesarkar.maharashtra.gov.in/en/

1) click on login or create new user account. Once it

created, log in using username and password.

Window will appear

2) Then search for Revenue Department and click on

it. Then click on Senior Citizen Certificate

3) Then fill necessary information required like Name of

husband, District name, Taluka name. A window will

appear this will be an application form. Fill it carefully

and click on submit

4) Then window will appear which shall ask you to

upload the passport size photograph and all required

document

5) Click on upload documents

6) Post click on submit the window will appear which will

ask you for payment then select proper payment

option, make payment and submit

7) Then after 5 to 6 or 20 days you can download soft

copy of senior citizen certificate

Required documents

Information required/procedure for

applying Senior Citizen Certificate: •Name and Gender

•Date of Birth and age

•Address, District, contact numbers and

email address.

•Religion

•Field of Specialization

•Year of Retirement

•Retired From

•Spouse’s Details

•Relative’s Details

Sample card

• Biggest challenge for senior citizens is technology. • Rationalisation of documents doesn’t suffice especially

for senior citizens and hence its hard to fulfill requirement for them.

• Many old age people don’t have age proof. Some are unaware of birth dates as well.

• Required resident proof cant be accessible for destitute senior citizens.

• No dedicated system made for directing/helping them. • Real time for procuring certificate lengthens in order to

fulfill all required documents and procedures.

Challenges/loopholes:

Way ahead:

• Dedicated help desk should be created at local level viz.,tehsildar office.

• Onus of identifying them and verifying their address should be on local police.

• Tehsildar/collector office/local police can itself identify the beneficiaries creating dedicated team including medical persons to find physiological age doing house to house survey and helping them with necessary procedures.

• Creating awareness through campaigns ,advertisements, gram sabha,radio,etc.

Thank you.