Monthly Pension after you superannuate, having served Indian Government is a privilege that not everyone in India enjoys. However, there is a need to present yourself around November of a year to mark the fact that you are alive so that you can get your pension into your bank account for the next 12 months. This is a process a lot of seniors follow year after year. My father is one of them. In early days, until a couple of years ago, it required a physical visit to the bank where you had the pension account, Like most of them in India, my father has it with State Bank of India ( SBI ). So his annual visit to the bank required that he fill up some form, sign it and stand in the queue, when his turn came, he would be called into the managers cabin and the manager would then sign the form after taking a careful look at my father and checking his signature which he had access to because he had the bank account with SBI. The form would then be shipped to a central office and some humans in
