ANNUAL VALIDATION OF ECHS MEMBERSHIP OF DEPENDENTS BY SUBMISSION OF LIFE CERTIFICATE AND ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTS BY PRIMARY BENEFICIARIES

Annual Validation of ECHS Membership of Dependents by submission of Life Certificate and Eligibility Document by Primary beneficiaries: ECHS Order 30 Jan 2025

Central Organisation ECHS
Adjutant General’s Branch
Integrated Headquarters of
MoD (Army), Thimayya Marg,
Near Gopinath Circle,
Delhi Cantt- 110 010

B/49711-NSC/AG/ ECHS/Gen Corr

30 Jan 2025

IHQ of MoD (Air Force)
IHQ of MoD (Navy)
HQ South Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ East Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ West Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ Central Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ Northern Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ South West Comd (A/ECHS)
HQ ANC
HQ SFF & HQ Coast Guard

Source Dot Com Private Ltd
Plot No 16, Electronic City,
Sector-18, Udyog Vihar,
Phase-lV, Gurugram
Haryana-122001

M/s UTI-ITSL
UTI Bhawan, Plot No.3, Sector -11
CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai
Maharashtra – 400614.
All Regional Centers

ANNUAL VALIDATION OF ECHS MEMBERSHIP OF DEPENDENTS BY SUBMISSION OF LIFE CERTIFICATE AND ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTS BY PRIMARY BENEFICIARIES

1. Please refer following:-
(a) Central Organisation ECHS letter No B/49711-SC/ AG/ECHS dt 06 Jul 2022.
(b) Central Organisation ECHS letter No B/49701-PR/AG/ECHS/2017 at 26 Oct 2022.
(c) Central Organisation ECHS letter No B/49701-PR/AG/ECHS/201 7 dt  27 Dec 2022.
(d) Central Organisation ECHS letter No B/4971 4-NewSmartCard /AG/ECHS at 01 Mar 2023.
(e) Central Organisation ECHS letter No B/49701-PR/AG/ECHS/2020 dt 13 Jul, 2023.
(f) Central Organisation ECHS letter B/49711-NSC/AG/ECHS/ Gen Corr dt 16 Jan 2024.

2. It is intimated that there is a change in procedure, to process unblocking of cards which are being blocked, for not able to carry out annual validation of dependents in time. The provision of three months window given to ECHS beneficiaries to carryout annual validation, vide letter mentioned at para 1 (f) is hereby withdrawn wef date of issue of this letter.

3. Henceforth for any ESM/Beneficiary, who has failed to upload documents to complete annual validation within period for which card was active, will be provided a window of one year for uploading documents and completing annual validation, however ECHS beneficiary will not be permitted to avail medical facilities, for the duration, till annual validation has been approved. ECHS card of the beneficiary will be blocked if Annual validation is not carried out by the beneficiary, even after one year from the date of expiry of last annual validation. The competent authority has approved following actions, to facilitate such beneficiaries to get their cards unblocked and annual validation approved: –

(a) Action by Primary beneficiary/ESM.

(i) Submit offline/online application along with the required self-attested documents separately, dependent wise excluding parents to OIC Polyclinic.

(ii) Re-submit the application rectifying the observations raised by OIC PC.

(b) Action by OIC Polyclinic: Scrutinize application received from Primary beneficiary/ ESM/ Dependent and approve on basis of correctness of documents. In case, of any observations in documents, OIC PC will reject application and ask beneficiary to resubmit application. OIC PC Is also authorised to seek any additional financial documents for verification.

4. It is pertinent to note that, ECHS Card of beneficiary will be activated for a duration of one year only, wef date when annual validation of respective card has been approved by OIC PC. For info and necessary action pl.

(BS Poswal)

Copy to:-
MoD (DESW)
For information please.
AG Br.