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A decision of the EPF Appellate Tribunal, North Delhi, that the term “employee” was defined in the Payment of Bonus Act as regular workers which included apprentices, was upheld by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. Rejecting the contention
The decision by the Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to stop paying interest on accounts that have not been operated for 36 months or more is expected to cover 60 per cent of the accounts. According to EPFO estimates, there were 30.5 million inoperative accounts across 120 offices. In all, the agency had 47.1 million subscribers at the end of March 2009, which is estimated to have increased during the last financial year. However, latest data on the total number of subscribers was not available.
Union Minister of Labour & Employment, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge Chaired the 190th Meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (EPF) in New Delhi CBT decides to increase the rate of interest to be credited to EPF members accounts for the year 2010-11 to 9
Under the DTC Bill, the annual deduction has been raised to Rs. 1.5 lakh. From the bill It appears that investments in PPF, PF, NPS, pure life insurance policies, savings schemes as notified by the government are eligible for this deduction under EEE category.
Paragraph 32 of the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 provides for annual valuation of the Pension Fund by valuer appointed by the Central Government.
Interest Rate on EPF :- The rate of interest on Employees Provident Fund Accounts for the year 2010-11 is to be based on the income receivable on the corpus during the year and it is likely to be declared by the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund [CBT(EPF)] in its next meeting scheduled to be held on 04.09.2010.
Retirement fund manager EPFO’s apex decision-making body, the Central Board of Trustees, will meet on September 4 to decide on the interest rate for depositors for 2010-11, which is likely to be 8.5 per cent.
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is expected to retain the interest rate for its six crore account holders at 8.5 per cent in 2010-11, with a formal announcement likely to be made in August.”I hope that the recommendation of 8.5 per cent by the Finance and Investment Committee of the EPFO will be retained,” Central Provident Fund Commissioner S Chatterjee told PTI.
A budgetary estimate of Rs. 96 crore has been approved by the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund (CBT, EPF) for the implementation of the first phase of the ‘Modernization Project’ of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) being implemented in collaboration with National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Over 4.7 crore (47 million) employees are likely to get an interest of 8.5 per cent in 2010-11 on their provident fund deposits of about Rs 2.5 lakh crore (Rs 2.5 trillion), a return authorities have been giving for the past five years. The decision is likely to be taken on Friday at the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision making body of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (FPFO), turning down the trade unions’ demand for 8.75 per cent as it would result in huge deficit.
