Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Thursday said that monthly Employee Provident Fund (EPF) of about 11,845 employees working on contract basis under National Health Mission (NHM) in the State would be deducted from April 1, 2016. This would benefit them to the tune of about Rs26 crore per annum, said the Health Minister.
He said that the contribution of employees working under NHM would be 12 per cent and an equal contribution would be by the government to the accounts of the employees. There are 10,245 such employees in all 21 districts of the state, whose average monthly salary is Rs13,000. For these employees, the Government would bear a burden of about Rs1.81 crore per month. Similarly, the Government would contribute about Rs32.67 lakh per month in the accounts of about 1,600 employees, whose average monthly salary is about Rs15,000, said Vij.
The Minister said that the Government has divided the EPF organisation into four parts for smooth operation of this process in Haryana. The Karnal division included Karnal, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Yamunanagar, Panipat, Ambala, Sonipat and Panchkula and Gurgaon division included Gurgaon, Mahendragarh, Mewat, and Rewari. Similarly, the Faridabad division included Faridabad and Palwal while Rohtak division included Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Rohtak and Sirsa.
For the initiative, the Government has proposed Rs25 crore for 2016-17.