Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 27
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) organised the monthly outreach programme, officially known as Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0 (NAN 2.0), on March 27 in Nagaland.
The NAN 2.0 was launched in January, this year, with a directive to organise the event on the 27th of every month for the benefit of clients/subscribers registered under the EPFO, an agency established under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 for ensuring social security (pension and insurance funds) to employees/workers in the private sector and Public Sector Undertakings. It requires that a business establishment with 20 or more employees must compulsorily register with the organisation and thereby ensuring a contributory pension and insurance scheme for the employees.
A revamped version of the NAN 1.0, the NAN 2.0 serves as a grievance redressal platform and information exchange network for the employers and the employees.
The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II, SSO, Dimapur, Rohit Singh, informed that the outreach program was organised is all the districts simultaneously as specified by the Union Ministry of Labour & Employment. It seeks to increase accessibility to EPF subscribers and enhancing visibility of the organisation to a wider audience.
In this programme, EPFO field offices across the country set up help desks through which subscribers’ grievances are addressed on the spot, on priority.
Singh informed that 727 establishments, mostly businesses, are currently registered under the EPFO in Nagaland. According to him, any private employee, who feels that she/he has been deprived of the benefits stipulated under the EPF Act should approach the EPFO’s state branch located in half Nagarjan, Dimapur. While stating that awareness about the Act and the social security rights it guarantees an employee, he added that awareness about the EPFO and the benefit it provides is relatively less in Nagaland.
