Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment
12-August-2015 09:53 IST
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment
12-August-2015 09:53 IST
The Nidhi
Aapke Nikat, a public outreach programme was launched by Employees’ Provident
Fund Organisation (EPFO) on 10th July 2015. The details and salient
features of the programme are:-
•
It
is a public outreach programme.
•
It
is proposed to be held on 10th of the month and on the next working
day if the 10th happens to be a holiday.
•
It
is held in all the 122 field offices of EPFO across the country and is to be
presided over by the Officer-in-charge.
•
Various
new initiatives in the interest of employees/employers taken by EPFO are
explained during the programme.
•
It
is an endeavour by EPFO to bring together all its different stakeholders on a
common platform.
•
It
encourages employees and employers to give their suggestions and feedback
regarding the different issues affecting EPFO besides redressing grievances.
EPFO has been
consistently improving its service delivery using a number of Information
Technology (IT) initiatives. As a result, the number of grievances received
annually has considerably come down. While 2,74,976 grievances were received
in 2011-12, this has reduced by 32.91 per cent to 1,84,480 in 2014-15.
‘Nidhi
Aapke Nikat’ not only adopts participatory and broad based approach in dealing
with its stakeholders, but also disseminates information regarding the new
initiatives taken in the interest of stakeholders. Such measures in due course
bring about greater public awareness of the rights and responsibilities of all
the stakeholders and will in turn, check the number of grievances in future.
This was
stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour
and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today