PF Share Of Some Employees To Be Paid By Government Till Next Year

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday, August 21 that the government will pay the provident fund (PF) share of employer and employee till 2022 for those people who lost their jobs, but were again called back to work in small-scale jobs in the formal sector and whose units are registered in the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). 

The Finance Minister also announced that if in a district, more than 25,000 migrant workers work in the informal sector, return to their native places, will receive benefits from 16 government schemes for employment. In 2020, the government increased the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employee Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) budget from ₹ 60,000 crore to around ₹ 1 lakh crore amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The provisional payroll data of retirement body EPFO released on Friday highlighted a growing trend with as many as 12.83 lakh net payroll additions during June 2021. The impact of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic waned during June 2021, with respect to payroll data, resulting in huge growth, compared to April and May this year, according to EPFO. 

The data's month-on-month analysis highlighted an increase of 5.09 lakh additions in net subscribers during June this year, compared to May 2021.