epfo: Formal job creation up in January; EPFO sees 1.52 million new subscriber addition

The payroll information by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, launched on Friday, reveals web new subscriber addition underneath the EPFO stood at 1.52 million in January 2022, 20.6% greater than 1.26 million added in December 2021.

Internet new subscribers underneath Staff State Insurance coverage Company, nonetheless, fell by 16.2% in January at 1.28 million as towards 1.53 million added in December 2021.

The Nationwide Pension Scheme additionally witnessed a dip of 10.4% with 64,998 new subscribers in January in comparison with 72,578 new subscribers added to it in December 2021.

As per the report, 1.04 million male subscribers have been added to ESIC whereas 0.23 feminine subscribers have been added to ESIC.

Of the whole 1.52 million web subscribers added to EPFO through the month, round 0.86 million new members have been registered underneath the social safety ambit of EPF & MP Act, 1952 for the primary time and roughly 0.66 million web subscribers exited however re-joined EPFO by persevering with their membership with EPFO as an alternative of choosing closing withdrawal.

Underneath NPS, most subscriber addition in January was from state authorities staff at 38,524 adopted by central authorities staff (13,421) and 13,053 from the non-government or company sector.

The NSO report relies on the payroll information of recent subscribers of assorted social safety schemes run by ESIC, the Staff’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Improvement Authority (PFRDA). It has been releasing such information of those our bodies since April 2018, protecting the interval ranging from September 2017.

The report, titled ‘Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective – November 2021’, stated because the variety of subscribers is from varied sources, there are parts of overlap, and the estimates are usually not additive.

NSO additionally stated the report provides totally different views on the degrees of employment within the formal sector and doesn’t measure employment at a holistic stage.