UMANG App

UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD) to drive Mobile Governance in India.
UMANG provides a single platform for all Indian Citizens to access pan India e-Gov services ranging from Central to Local Government bodies and other citizen centric services.
Launched in 2017, at present, about 660 services from 127 departments & 25 states and about 180 utility bill payment services are live and more are in pipeline. UMANG user base has crossed 2.1 Crore including Android, iOS, Web and KaiOS.

Unified Platform: It brings together all government departments and their services on a single platform to provide better and easier services to citizens.
Mobile-First Strategy: It aligns all government services with the mobile-first strategy to leverage mobile adoption trends.
Integration with Digital India Services: It provides seamless integration with other Digital India Services like Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and PayGov. Any new such service will automatically be integrated with the platform.
Uniform Experience: It is designed to enable citizens to discover, download, access, and use all government services easily.
Secure and Scalable: It supports Aadhaar-based and other authentication mechanisms for service access. The sensitive profile data is saved in an encrypted format and no one can view this information.

It is a unified application that can be used to avail a number of pan India e-government services such as: Filing income tax, Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) services, Aadhar, Pension, ePathshala, e- Land Records, Crop Insurance, etc.

Recently, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has started a facility on the UMANG App which enables members of the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) 1995 to apply online for Scheme Certificates.(EPS is a social security scheme that was launched in 1995 and is provided by EPFO).
It makes provisions for pensions for the employees in the organised sector after the retirement at the age of 58 years.

Scheme certificate is issued to members who withdraw their EPF contribution but wish to retain their membership with EPFO, to avail pension benefits on attainment of retirement age.
A member becomes eligible for pension only if he has been, cumulatively, a member of the Employees’ Pension Scheme,1995 for at least 10 years.
Upon joining a new job, Scheme Certificate ensures that previous pensionable service is added to pensionable service rendered with the new employer thereby, increasing the amount of pension benefits.
Further, Scheme Certificate is also useful for family members to avail family pension, in case of untimely death of the eligible member.

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