09/12/2015
Hi all.. Hope all of u are doing well.😊
Friends, one important learning from Chennai floods:
Millions of personal documents of people have been lost or damaged. Important papers like Insurance Certificates and Medical Records are lost or destroyed. In panic, fleeing people have abandoned them.
Solution: Digitizing your documents.
Please scan and store the following documents for you and each family member in a Pen Drive. Whenever you add another document, please scan it too and save it in the Pen Drive. The Pen Drive can be kept inside a small Ziplock pouch. Make a few copies of the Pen Drive and keep them in very safe places, so that even if one is lost/damaged, you still have copies.
The documents list:
1. Passport, including Visa Pages
2. Insurance Certificates for Life Insurance
3. Insurance Certificates for Medical Insurance
4. Birth Certificate
5. School Certificates
6. Degree Certificates
7. Fixed Deposit Certificates
8. Important Medical Documents, including medical prescriptions for elderly family members
9. Driving License
10. Aadhar Card
11. Ration Card
12. Voter I'D
13. PAN Card
14. Previous years Income Tax returns
15. Property Papers for home, farm arc
16. Vehicle Insurance papers
17. Vehicle Registrations and Tax tokens
17. Warranty Papers for important items
18. Any other Insurance Papers like Home Insurance, Mobile Insurance arc
19. Prescription Lenses for Eyes
20. Employment Record, including Appointment Orders for previous companies, Salary Slips, Releiving Letters arc
Never know when a systematic document preservation system will suddenly be helpful. This need not be needed only during calamities, they may be needed even in normal life situations.
Over the past few days, I saw so many people regretting for not keeping their documents safe.
Take care.😊👆👍👍
