Scheme to provide social security to employees

Ajay Joshi

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 7

Under the PMRPY (Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Protsahan Yojana) scheme, the government will bear the employer’s share of a new employee appointed in any institute. While apprising media persons here on Friday, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Regional Commissioner, PF Office, said the PMRPY being run by the Government of India would now encourage new employments.

Under the employer share under Provident Fund clauses of any organisation, the government has proposed to carry the employer share of new employee appointed in any institute, who has not worked in any other institute and this benefit will be automatically be transferred to the employer by the reduction in monthly challan deposited by him.

To avail this scheme, it is necessary that the employer gets the Universal Account Number (UAN) of the eligible employees registered and links their Aadhaar number. It is also important to verify that the monthly salary of the employee is Rs 15,000 or less than this amount.

Any employer who wants to avail the benefit of this scheme is required to register on the EPFO and the PMRPY portal. Yadav said four districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala fall in the jurisdiction of the regional office, however most of the institutions have not yet registered in the PMRPY. Therefore, he has appealed to all the institutions to immediately register their institutions at the PMRPY portal so that they could get the benefit provided by the Indian government.

He further said for the purpose of giving benefits of e-sewa to the employees, form-19/10-C, form-31 and form-13 documents, nomination forms and PF details have been made online. To avail the benefits, the employees’ UAN must be linked with Aadhar Card, Bank Account Number and PAN (KYC).

The employee whose KYC is verified by the employer, can immediately obtain the information related to the PF office such as pass book and PF details.

He could also fill the online claim which was not required to be verified by the employer and the disposal of online claims have also on been placed on priority.

“Employers who are not registering in are not only getting financial losses in relation to eligible employees contribution towards PF but also depriving their employees of e-services and immidiate online claims settlements,” added Yadav. He said to get the services, regional PF office had fixed the deadline for which guidelines had already been issued under paragraph 78 (3) of the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952.