NEW DELHI:
Retirement fund body EPFO is likely to retain 8.5 per cent interest on provident fund deposits for its over 5
crore subscribers in 2013-14 on Monday .
The Employees' Provident Fund Organization's apex decision making body — central board of trustees (CBT) — is scheduled to meet on Monday to decide on the PF interest rate for this fiscal.
According to
the agenda for the trustees' meet, 8.5 per cent interest will leave a small
surplus of Rs 56.96 crore.
The EPFO, which is estimated to have
an income of Rs 20,796.96 crore in the current fiscal, needs Rs 20,740 crore to
pay 8.5 per cent interest to the subscribers. EPFO had provided 8.5 per cent interest in the 2012-13 fiscal, which was higher than 8.25 announced in 2011-12.
According to estimates, hiking the
interest payment by half a per cent to 9 per cent would require an additional
amount of Rs 1,220 crore, which does not seem feasible.
"Payment of interest to the members is expenditure for the trust (EPFO), which is to be met out of its earnings. Thus, the rate of interest should be commensurate with the total earnings of the trust," the EPFO has said in its proposal to the trustees.
"Payment of interest to the members is expenditure for the trust (EPFO), which is to be met out of its earnings. Thus, the rate of interest should be commensurate with the total earnings of the trust," the EPFO has said in its proposal to the trustees.
The trustees are meeting on Monday
after a gap of almost one year. They will also take up a proposal to increase
the minimum administrative charges for managing EPF Scheme 1952 and Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme
1976 to Rs 500 and Rs 200 per month from existing rate of Rs 5 and Rs 2,
respectively.
The EPFO has proposed an increase of service charges to Rs 75 and Rs 25 per month respectively for managing EPF and EDLI schemes for non-functional establishments having no contributory members.
The EPFO has proposed an increase of service charges to Rs 75 and Rs 25 per month respectively for managing EPF and EDLI schemes for non-functional establishments having no contributory members.
Besides, the CBT will also take a
decision on hiring a consultant for initiating process of selection of new
multiple fund managers for its huge corpus of about Rs 5 lakh crore.
The consultant would also evaluate
the performance of new fund managers and appoint a custodian and concurrent
auditor for the EPFO. At present, Crisil is providing consultancy services to
the EPFO.
The body will also launch a software
to monitor over 2,700 private provident fund trusts regulated by
it so as to improve the delivery of services. These trusts manage around Rs 2
lakh crore corpus.
These trusts are those firms which
manage their workers' PF accounts and funds themselves, and are governed by the
EPF Scheme 1952, regulated by EPFO.
Source : TOI
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