tamilnadupost.nic.in Postal Life Insurance Scheme : Tamil Nadu Postal Circle

Organization :Tamil Nadu Postal Circle
Facility : Postal Life Insurance Schemes

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Postal Life Insurance (PLI) :

introduced on 1st February 1884 with the express approval of the Secretary of State (for India) to Her Majesty, the Queen Empress of India.

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It was essentially a scheme of State Insurance mooted by the then Director General of Post Offices, Mr. F.R. Hogg in 1881 as a welfare scheme for the benefit of Postal employees and later extended to the employees of Telegraph department in 1888. In 1894, PLI extended insurance cover to employees of P & T Department at a time when no other insurance company covered lives. It is the oldest Life insurer in this country.

A PLI/RPLI policy Facilities :
** Change of nomination.
** The insurant can take loan by pledging his/her policy to Heads of the Circle/Region on behalf of President of India, provided the policy has completed 3 years in case of Endowment Assurance and 4 years in case of Whole Life Assurance. The facility of assignment is also available.
** Assignment of Policy to any Financial Institution for taking loan.

Eligibility :
Employees of the following Organizations are eligible.
** Central Government
** Defence Services
** Para Military forces
** State Government
** Local Bodies
** Government-aided Educational Institutions
** Reserve Bank of India
** Public Sector Undertakings
** Financial Institutions
** Nationalized Banks
** Autonomous Bodies
** Extra Departmental Agents in Department of Posts
** Employees Engaged/ Appointed an Contract basis by central/ State Government where the contract is extendable
** Employees of all scheduled Commercial Banks
** Employees of Credit Co-operative Societies and other Co-operative Societies registered with Government under the Co-operative Societies Act and partly or fully funded from the Central/ State Government/RBI/ SBI/ Nationalized Banks/ NABARD and other such institutions notified by Government
** Employees of deemed Universities an educational institutes accredited by recognized bodies such a National Assessment and Accreditation council, All India Council of Technical Education,Medical council of india etc

RPLI Types of plans:
** Whole Life Assurance ( GRAMA SURAKSHA)
** Convertible Whole Life Assurance (GRAMA SUVIDHA)
** Endowment Assurance ( GRAMA SANTOSH)
The salient features of the Whole Life, Endowment, Convertible Whole Life and Anticipated Endowment Schemes of RPLI are same as the corresponding schemes of PLI except that the minimum Sum Assured is Rs.10,000 and the maximum Sum Assured is Rs.5 lac. The maximum age limit of entry is 55 years in case of Whole Life and Endowment Assurance but 45 years in case of other plans.
All the schemes have compulsory medical examination. For the non-medical policies, the maximum limit of Sum Assured is Rs.25,000/-, and maximum age is 35 years. In case of Non-standard age proof for Rural PLI policies, the maximum age limit is 45 years.