EPFO announces paperless operations by August 2018, all services to go online

New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN) In a bid to revamp the functioning mechanism, Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has announced digitalizing all its operations by the August of 2018.

The Central Provident Fund Commissioner V P Joy in a press interview informed about the latest development.

Joy said that the EPFO going online and doing away with offline system by in a years’ time from now is the new target of the organization.  He further said that once the EPFO goes paperless, this would help reduce public interface and help save time.

Also online services are expected to tackle to problem of corruption that continue to hamper the speedy functioning of the organization as complained by various stakeholders.

EPFO at present runs social security schemes including EPF, pension and insurance for formal sector workers. It has already launched a number of online services such as EPF withdrawals. (KNN/ DA)