Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: EPFO being a high stake Organisation of Government of India under Ministry of Labour had embarked upon its journey in J&K and Ladakh from November, 2019, where initially, the first team comprising of six Enforcement Officers, one Regional P F Commissioner-II and one Regional Commissioner-I laid the basic foundation. This team had to educate Employers and Employees about filing ECRs and manners/methods of seeking withdrawals and activation of UAN, seeding KYC.
The second team of EPFO took over charge in July, 2021 onwards when all the members of first team except one RPFC-II – Ramesh in Jammu and one EO in Srinagar stayed back. The real service delivery in terms of claim settlement started from July, 2021. It was a daunting task as the Computer systems were supposed to be aligned with National Data Centre on Central Server and roles had to allot in hierarchy. Entire accounts related work fell upon the team that remained in Jammu. Claims started landing up in the system successively. Work of Kashmir and Ladakh was also being processed from Jammu.
The workload was managed reasonably, barring a few individuals majority of Officials started working sincerely. Flexi hours helps the Office in speedier settlement of claims. Many dealing hands of morning shift attend Office before 7 AM. On Saturday almost all SSSA namely Sanjeev Kumar, Ketan Saxena, Arun Kumar, Subhash Chandra, Sachin Bhardwaj, Ravi Kumar, Rajander Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar, Tamilselvam, Arpit Singhal and at AO level Shiva Murthy T, Sanjeev Kumar, Amit Jakhmola and Jagpreet Singh Cheema and Mini S, (DPA) and Rajan T (DPA) attended the Office.