A team of the regional office of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) raided the office and project site of Janta Land Promoters Limited (JLPL) in Sector 82 following complaints that the company was not extending the benefits of the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) to its employees.
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| EPFO pasted six notices (in black circle) at JLPL’s construction site in Mohali Tuesday |
The officials said that during the
raid, they detected many irregularities in extension of the EPF benefits. The
team also seized the documents of the company, which is owned by Mohali Mayor
Kulwant Singh.
According to the EPFO officials, they
are conducting a drive, especially in the building and construction area, to
ensure that all the workers get their statutory PF, pension and other allied
benefits admissible under the Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous
Provisions Act. In this connection a raid was conducted by a team of officials
of the regional office of EPFO, Chandigarh, headed by five Assistant PF
Commissioners — Paripuran Nath, Mayank Bansal, Raushan Kumar, Siddhartha and
Tej Pratap Yadav.
The officials said that during the
raid, physical verification of approximately 400 workers was conducted at the
project site and huge evasion in extension of EPF benefits was detected. The
team seized various related records.
“Many of their workers belonging to
various contractors of JLPL, namely Surya Construction, Zanders Construction,
RKV construction, SVL Construction, Om Prakash Surender Kumar Construction etc.
present on the project site stated that no PF was being deducted from their
salaries, some of the authorities available at the site even refused receipt of
the seizure memo, copies of which were pasted on the construction site itself,”
said the EFPO officials.
The officials said that the regional
office would scrutinise the records seized and would ensure that social
security benefits were extended to all the employees who worked at the project
site.
When contacted, Kulwant Singh said they
had nothing to do with the PF as they had hired some contractors for arranging
labourers for them and it was their responsibility to extend the PF benefits to
the labourers.
Source:http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/epfo-officials-raid-jlpl-office-and-site-detect-irregularities/
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