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UPSC Recruitment 2020: Fresh vacancies released for EPFO; graduates can apply.

Source – catchnews.com

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), New Delhi has released a job opportunity for the Enf Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer under Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, Ministry of Labour and Employment. Interested candidates can submit their application form for the post by visiting the official website of UPSC at upsconline.nic.in.

UPSC has released a total of 421 positions for the vacancies released by EPFO. The application form for the post will be filled through Online Recruitment Application (ORA) before January 31, 2020.

Check UPSC EPFO Vacancy Details 2020:

Total posts: 421 vacancies Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer posts

Eligibility Criteria for Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer Posts

Educational Qualification

Candidates who hold the Bachelor’s degree in any subject are eligible to apply for the vacancies released by Union Public Service Commission.

Age Limit Required:

The age limit required to apply for the post is 30 Years. Meanwhile, the age relaxation to aspirants will be given as per government norms.

Pay Scale:

Candidates who will qualify for the post will get the salary under Level-8 in the Pay Matrix as per 7th CPC. General Central Service Group ‘B’, Non-Ministerial.

Selection Procedure:

Candidates will be selected on the basis of their performance in the entrance examination which will be held on October 4, 2020, across the nation.

UPSC EPFO Important Dates

  • Last Date for Submitting Online Application through ORA Website – 31 January 2020
  • Last date for printing of completely submitted online application – 01 February 2020
  • UPSC EPFO Recruitment Test – 04 October 2020

Know how to apply for UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer Jobs 2020

Candidates will have to submit their application form in the prescribed format at www.upsconline.nic.in on or before31 January 2020.

Application Fee:

  • General/ OBC – Rs. 25
  • SC/ST/PH/Women candidates – No Fee

UPSC Announces Over 400 Enforcement Officer Vacancies In EPFO.

Source – ndtv.com

New Delhi: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced 421 vacancies for Enforcement Officer/Accounts Officer available with the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Ministry of Labour and Employment. The last date to apply for this recruitment is January 31, 2020.

Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline to be eligible for recruitment. Upper age limit is 30 years.

Eligible candidates can apply for the recruitment through the Online Recruitment Application (ORA) website, ‘upsconline.nic.in’. The last date to print completed application form is February 2, 2020.

Candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs. 25 only either offline by remitting the money in any branch of the SBI by cash or online by using net banking facility of the SBI or by using visa/master credit/debit card.

Candidates will be selected after a pen-paper based Recruitment Test (RT) and Interview. The Recruitment Test and Interview will carry weightage in the ratio of 75:25 for the candidates who are shortlisted for interview on the basis of performance in the Recruitment Test.

The Recruitment Test will be held tentatively on October 4, 2020.

The Recruitment Test (RT) will be of two hours’ duration. All the questions will carry equal marks. The test will be objective in nature and questions will be bilingual – in English and Hindi. Candidates who qualify in the written test will be called for Interview.

Bihar seeks legal opinion on EPF benefits to teachers.

Source – hindustantimes.com

After the Patna High Court order and letter from the additional central provident fund commissioner (Bihar and Jharkhand) Rajib Bhattacharya to the additional chief secretary (education) RK Mahajan, the state government has finally sought legal opinion on extending EPF coverage to its nearly four lakh teachers.

“The government has sought legal opinion from the advocate general on how to go about it. Once the opinion arrives, the government will initiate the process,” said a senior official of the education department.

Interestingly, while the teachers are yet to get PF facility, it is already there for nearly 19,000 tola sevaks and nearly 9,000 volunteers of Talimi Markaz, who were deployed on a fixed salary to being out-of-school children to schools.

On October 16, the Bihar Education Project Council also issued directive for deduction of EPF amount from resource teachers and other employees.

In his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to chief secretary Deepak Kumar, the additional commissioner, EPFO, has stated that the matter needed to be resolved immediately as the HC might initiate contempt proceedings if the timeline of 60 days stipulated for compliance of its order and extension of PF benefits to teachers were not adhered to. Nearly a month has already lapsed since the order was passed.

“It is requested that nodal officer for each district as well as state coordinator may be nominated at the end of this month by the department of education to work with EPFO’s nodal officers for initiating action as per the EPF & MP Act, 1952. The compliance of the court is possible only when the department initiates the process,” he wrote.

Hearing a writ petition filed by two teachers from Maner and Nalanda, the bench of Justice Anil Kumar Upadhyay had last month directed the regional PF commissioner to see that the petitioners were benefited by the EPF scheme. “Necessary action in terms of the provisions of the Act must be taken by the officer at the earliest, preferably within a maximum period of 60 days from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order,” the bench observed.

Regional PF commissioner RW Syiem said the additional commissioner had held meetings with Mahajan in the light of the Patna HC order for timely compliance. “The department has sought legal opinion from AG, but so far we have not been apprised of it. We have also written to the executive director of the Bihar Education Project Council, as a large number of teachers are under it,” he said.

Syiem said the EPFO has been consistently approaching the government for extension of PF coverage to all teachers. “We have also written to the district education officers (DEOs). We are serious about it,” he said.

A senior education department official said the huge backlog had created a difficult situation for the government, as PF was a statutory requirement. “When even tola sevaks have been extended the PF facility, why were teachers kept out of it for so long? Perhaps the AG will suggest a way out,” he said.