PF office gets ISO 9001 certificate

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 20

Employees’ Provident Fund (PF) Organisation’s regional office here received the ISO (9001: 2015) certificate for provision of services to subscribers under the EPF and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.

Regional Commissioner Sunil Kumar Yadav said Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala come under the jurisdiction of Jalandhar district office, which caters to about 9 lakh accounts in respect of 8,559 covered establishments having approximate 1.82 lakh contributory members. He said 93,072 claims worth Rs337.86 crore were settled during the period April-2020 to December-2020, including 19,281 special Covid advance claims to the tune of Rs36.31 crore.

He said during the pandemic, more than 1,100 establishments had benefitted to the tune of more than Rs2.75 crore as EPF contribution to 17,251 members, which was deposited directly into their PF accounts under PMGKY. He said this office had completed 93%Aadhaar seeding as KYC of its members and urged employers as well as members to get their KYC seeded on a priority for various online benefits being extended by the EPFO.

He said the Centre had implemented Atam Nirbhar Rojgar Yojana to promote employment and encourage new employment opportunities. Under this scheme, the government will provide subsidy of 12%as employee contribution and 12%employer contribution (both) 24%of salary allowances for a period of two years for those employees, who joined on or after October 1, 2020, and till June 30, 2021, depending upon the employment strength of the establishment. He appealed to all employers and members to avail maximum advantage of this scheme.