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Govt working on creating new avenues of employment and self-employment: Gangwar

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, NOV 02, 2017: EMPLOYEES Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) celebrated its 65th foundation day here on November 1, 2017. The Lok Sabha Speaker, Ms. Sumitra Mahajan praised the efforts of EPFO to digitalize the services to accelerate the claims of EPFO beneficiaries in Provident Fund, Pension & Insurance. She also inaugurated 1 MW solar power plant at various regional offices of EPFO. 

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour & Employment, Mr. Santosh Kumar Gangwar said that EPFO has taken a long jump since its inception in 1952. Mr. Gangwar said that the central government is sincerely working to create new avenues of employment and self-employment under the Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi. Recently the government has decided to construct 83,000 km highways which will create 32 crore man-days within a span of 5 years. The Mudra Yojna has created a lot of self-employment as 9.5 crore people have been given loan amounting to 4 lakh crore, he added.

The Labour Minister said that EPFO has achieved various milestones in last 65 years. The journey began with 5.5 lakh beneficiaries and now EPFO covers 4.5 crore employees today. Mr Gangwar further stated that EFPO now covers more than 10 lakh establishments which initially was 1267. EPFO has started various new initiatives to  accelerate the process of online registration of employers. EPFO is spreading the coverage area of its schemes for workers from unorganized sector, the Minister added.

The Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Ms. M Sathiyavathy said that EPFO has done the tremendous job by adding more than one crore members in the six months span during January to June 2017. The Commissioner, EPFO, Dr. V.P. Joy said that EPFO is committed to Digital India initiative.  He hoped that EPFO will become a totally digitalized and paperless office by August 15, 2018.  


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