C-CARES, the web portal of CMPFO launched by Union Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi

Current Context: Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi launched a web portal of CMPFO namely C-CARES on 31st January, 2024.

• This portal was developed and designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an R&D organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
• The Coal Mines Provident Fund Organization (CMPFO) is an autonomous organization under the aegis of Ministry of Coal established in the year 1948 for administering Provident Fund and Pension schemes for the purpose of providing social security to the coal sector workers.
• The Organization is presently rendering services to about 3.3 lakh Provident Fund subscribers and 6.1 lakh pensioners of the coal sector.
• Before the launch of this portal, CMPFO processed settlement claims of Provident Fund subscribers and pensioners manually.
• With the launch of C-CARES, settlement of PF and pension claims will now be processed and settled online.

Question:

Q.1 Which organization developed and designed the C-CARES portal?
a. Indian Institute of Technology
b. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
c. National Informatics Centre
d. Infosys