The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) gets SKOCH Awards for Smart Governance for its initiatives on UAN Programme and Transformation of Social Security Agenda in India. EPFO was also awarded two SKOCH Order-of-Merit, one for launching UAN for EPFO members and another for transformation of Social Security Agenda in India.
Skoch Group is a Gurgaon based think tank dealing with socio-economic issues with a focus on inclusive growth since 1997. Skoch Group is able to bring an Indian felt-needs context to strategies and engages with fortune-500 companies, state owned enterprises, government to SMEs and community-based organisations with equal ease.
Some of the major initiatives taken by EPFO receiving appreciation are:
- Distribution of pension to the pensioners on the first day of the month
- Online Registration of Establishments
- Online submission of returns and remittances by the employers through Net-Banking and Online facility for filing of statutory returns by PF exempted establishments.
EPFO is also in the midst of popularising UAN portal. More than 1.88 crore employees have already activated their UAN. EPFO has also launched a mobile app, an SMS based service for activation of UAN and a missed call service for EPF members for getting to know their balances in their PF accounts.
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