Standard Operating Procedure. Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) [including Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY)]

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1 Standard Operating Procedure for Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) [including Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY)] Page 1 of 7

2 I. Name of the procedure: Standard Operating Procedure for implementation of Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) and Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY) schemes II. Purpose: In the Budget Speech , it was stated that In order to incentivize creation of new jobs in the formal sector, Government of India will pay the Employee Pension Scheme contribution of 8.33% for all new employees enrolling in EPFO for the first three years of their employment. This will incentivize the employers to recruit unemployed persons and also to bring into the books the informal employees. In order to channelize this intervention towards the target group of semi-skilled and unskilled workers, the scheme will be applicable to those with salary up to Rs 15,000 per month. I have made a budget provision of Rs 1,000 crore for this scheme. Accordingly, the Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) Plan Scheme has been designed to incentivise employers for generation of new employment, where Government of India will be paying the 8.33% EPS contribution of the employer for the new employment. In the case of the textile (apparel) sector, the employers are also eligible to get the 3.67% EPF contribution paid by the Government as mentioned in the PMRPY on-line form. This benefit can be availed of by the textile (apparel) sector establishments dealing with the Manufacture of wearing apparel, in particular NIC Codes 1410 and The Government, in this case, will also pay the EPF contribution of 3.67% in addition to paying the EPS contribution of 8.33% under Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY). The purpose of this document is to define the eligibility of employers & EPF members and the roles, responsibilities and procedures for employers, EPFO, CDAC, Ministry of Labour & Employment and Ministry of Textiles to implement Pradha Ma tri Rojgar Protsahan Yoja a and Pradha Ma tri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yoja a schemes. III. Resources: (i) Scheme Guidelines for Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) as received vide Office Memorandum No. DGE-U /1/2016-MP(G) dated from Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India. (ii) Scheme Guidelines for Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY) as received vide Office Memorandum No. F.No /1/2016-IT dated from Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Page 2 of 7

3 IV. Procedure: (A) Eligibility Criteria for Establishments for PMRPY scheme and PMPRPY scheme LIN available EPF Code available textile industry as verified by Ministry of Textiles base month strength available in database Employment Strength as per ECR is more than base month strength Employee s PF Share (12%) paid by Employer E plo er s PF Share (3.67%) paid by Employer eligible for Pension Share (8.33%) Benefit No No NA NA NA NA NA No No No Yes Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No No No Yes No NA NA NA NA NA No No Yes Yes Yes/No No** NA Yes/No Yes/No No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes/No Yes/No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes/No Yes/No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No NA No No * NA Not Applicable ** If no ECR has been filed in the base month, the employer is not eligible for benefits under the schemes as there is no base month employment strength available. Important: 1. In case of establishment is exempted from EPF scheme, 1952, the pension share would be made o establish e t s e e ptio flag o l a d EPF share (both employee and employer share) payment by employer in trust will not be validated in such cases. 2. The eligibility and benefits under the scheme for an employer would be determined on the basis of first ECR filed by the employer for the respective month. No benefits would be admissible on the basis of supplementary ECRs. 3. Due to filing of any supplementary ECR by the employer for the base month at a later stage leading to increase in employment strengthen for the base month, there is a possibility that the employer may become ineligible for benefits for some or all months, where he has already availed the benefits under the scheme. In such cases, the employer is liable to pay the subsidy amount availed by him for the respective months, where he is found ineligible, along with penal provisions as per the EPF & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 & Schemes framed thereunder. A periodical report would be generated for the field offices identification of such cases. 4. If at a later stage, it is found that the employer has given wrong information to avail benefits under the scheme, he is liable to pay the subsidy amount availed by him for the respective months, where he is found ineligible, along with penal eligible for Employer EPF Share (3.67%) Benefit Page 3 of 7

4 provisions as per EPF & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 & Scheme framed thereunder. (B) Base Month and Base Month Strength for establishments for PMRPY scheme Date of coverage of Base Month Base Month Strength ECR Period Establishment Before 31-March-2016 March-2016 Distinct members for which ECR is submitted for wage month March-2016 April-2016 to March-2017 Between 01-April-2016 to 31-March-2017 Not Applicable 0 April-2016 to March-2017 Before 31-March-2017 March-2017 Distinct members for which ECR is submitted for wage month March-2017 April-2017 to March-2018 Between 01-April-2017 to 31-March-2018 Not Applicable 0 April-2017 to March-2018 Before 31-March-2018 March-2018 Distinct members for which ECR is submitted for wage month March-2017 April-2018 to March-2019 Between 01-April-2018 to 31-March-2019 Not Applicable 0 April-2018 to March-2019 (C) Eligibility criteria for EPF member for PMRPY scheme Date of joining Before 01- April-2016 Between 01- April-2016 and 31-March Between 01- April-2016 and 31-March Between 01- April-2016 and 31-March After 31- March-2019 Aadhaar seeded and verified with UIDAI UAN allotted First time employment Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No No No Yes/No Yes/No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No No Eligible for PMRPY benefit Page 4 of 7

5 (D) Procedure to be followed by Employer for getting benefit under PMRPY Step 1: E ployer will logi to the E ployer I terfa e of EPFO s U ified Portal. Step 2: Employer will register new employees with Aadhaar information joined during the month through individual or bulk registration. Step 3: Employer will get UAN allotted to the new members and approve Aadhaar information through his DSC. Step 4: Employer will login on PMRPY portal ( Step 5: Employer will add new members who are eligible for PMRPY scheme on PMRPY portal. The online PMRPY return would be digitally signed by the employer. This activity must be completed before 10 th of the following month or before submitting ECR for that month, whichever is earlier. Only then the benefit under the schemes in respect of that ECR will be released. Return to be field by employers online for enrolling members for PMRPY/PMPRPY S. No. Field Field Type 1. UAN Input 2. Me er s Na e Display/Non Editable 3. Father s/hus a d Na e Display/Non Editable 4. Aadhaar Display/Non Editable 5. Date of Birth Display/Non Editable 6. Date of Joining Display/Non Editable 7. Date of Exit Display/Non Editable 8. Job Description Selection 9. Skill level Selection Step 6: Employer will login to the Employer Interfa e of EPFO s U ified Portal. Step 7: Employer will submit the ECR without any change with respect to PMRPY scheme, i.e. employer shall mention pension share (8.33%) and employer EPF share (3.67%) in ECR Page 5 of 7

6 file against PMRPY eligible member also. System will decide on the basis of information given by employer as explained in step 5 whether benefit has to be given or not. Step 8: Accordingly system will generate challan for payment after adjusting amount eligible under PMRPY scheme. Step 9: Thereafter, the system, through ECR portal of EPFO, would facilitate the employer for the remittance of the dues excluding the subsidy component as determined above in the challan generated by the system at step 8. (E) Fund Transfer from Plan Accounts of the schemes to Collection Accounts of EPFO On daily basis subsidy given to employers has to be transferred from plan accounts of the schemes to EPFO collection accounts. For this purpose, a ell a ely PMRPY Fu d Mo itori g Cell shall e o stituted i Fi a e wi g. Followi g will e the responsibilities of this cell: a. Monthly estimation of requirement of Funds in PMRPY b. Ensuring same day transfer of Funds from Plan accounts to collection account c. Maintaining sufficient funds in plan accounts before transfer from plan account to collection account For fu tio i g of PMRPY Fu d Mo itori g Cell, the dashboards shall be provided. (F) PMRPY Grievance Handling System Followings are the probable queries to be handled by grievance handling system: a. General query about scheme b. a particular member is eligible for PMRPY scheme or not? If not eligible, what is the reason for non-eligibility? c. a particular ECR is eligible for PMRPY scheme or not? If not eligible, what is the reason for non-eligibility? The Customer Services Division (CSD) would handle the grievances in coordination with the subject matter division i.e. Finance Division. Training would be provided to the dedicated team constituted for the purpose in the Customer Services Division (CSD) by Information Services (IS) Division to handle the grievances related to PMRPY. Page 6 of 7

7 Enquiry screen will be provided to the Customer Services Division (CSD) where by entering UAN/Aadhaar/Establishment ID/LIN/Wage Month/TRRN, the system will display complete information regarding PMRPY. Page 7 of 7