Chennai: Members of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) have appealed to its chairman, for administering the Covid-19 vaccine free of cost.
K E Raghunathan, representing employers side from All India Manufacturers Organisation as its past National president, and a member of the Central Board of Trustees, EPFO, said, ‘The last eight months have seen unprecedented challenges for both employers and employees. EPFO under your able guidance, direction and leadership, was able to serve the needy people not only with cash advances but also with payment of contributions of both employers and employees to prevent discontinuity. Infect several technology challenges were met with resolutions’.
‘If there is one organisation, which has received only appreciation, that can easily be EPFO and the winner of two prestigious awards, is a testimony to it. The payment of 8.5 per cent interest for FY 19-20 is once again the proof of hard work and intelligent deployment of funds’, he added.
He appealed to the chairman to consider administering the vaccine at free of cost to all members of EPFO (Employees) through ESI immediately and prevent them from being attacked and in turn save employers to go in for higher productivity.
‘The amount involved is not significant and can easily be managed by EPFO which has a corpus of over Rs 16 lakh crore. This will be a fine example for other Ministries as well to emulate’, he said, adding ‘I would request you to kindly consider this appeal on an emergency basis and implement’.