The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) of India was established in the year 1952 consequent to the enactment of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. This is one of the largest provident fund institutions in the world in terms of members and volume of financial transactions that it has been carrying on. The Organisation is adminsitered by the Central Board of Trustees, participated by the representatives of central government, state government, employers and employees. Government of India, Ministry of Labour supervises the administration. The head office is at New Delhi [1]. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Government of India (Hindi: Bharat Sarkar), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of India. ... New Delhi   (Hindi: , Punjabi: , Urdu: ‎) is an urban area within the metropolis of Delhi, and the capital city of the Republic of India, as well as the seat of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. ...

The Constitution of India under "Directive Principles of State Policy" provides that the State shall within the limits of its economic capacity make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old-age, sickness & disablement and undeserved want. The EPF & MP Act, 1952 was enacted by Parliament and came into force with effect from 14th March,1952. A series of legislative interventions were made in this direction, including the Employees' Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Presently, the following three schemes are in operation under the Act: An 1837 political cartoon about unemployment in the United States. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ...

1. Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 1952
2. Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976
3. Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995 (replacing the Employees' Family Pension Scheme, 1971)

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External links

• EPFO Main website
• EPFO Kerala state website
• EPFO Vashi website
• EPFO Rohtak
• EPFO Chennai website