{"id":7199,"date":"2022-11-02T01:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:18:40","slug":"employees-provident-fund-organisation-epfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/employees-provident-fund-organisation-epfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 1952.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is under the administrative control of the\u00a0Union Ministry of Labor and Employment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is tasked to assist the Central Board of Trustees in implementing the following three schemes for the workforce engaged in the organized sector in India:\n<ul>\n<li>EPF Scheme 1952;<\/li>\n<li>Pension scheme 1995 (EPS); and<\/li>\n<li>Insurance scheme (EDLI).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is also the nodal agency for implementing Bilateral Social Security Agreements with other countries on a reciprocal basis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, union government launched\u00a0Universal Account Number (UAN) for Employees covered by EPFO to enable PF number portability.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1872714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPFO is one of the two main social security organization under the Government of India&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}