Organisation : Ministry of Labour & Employment
Facility : Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana(PMRPY)
Details : https://labour.gov.in/
PMRPY
** 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.
Related : Ministry of Rural Development Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
** This scheme has a dual benefit, where, on the one hand, the employer is incentivised for increasing the employment base of workers in the establishment, and on the other hand, a large number of workers will find jobs in such establishments.
** A direct benefit is that these workers will have access to social security benefits of the organized sector
Scheme Objectives :
** 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.
** This Scheme has a dual benefit, where, on the one hand, the employer is incentivised for increasing the employment base of workers in the establishment, and on the other hand, a large number of workers will find jobs in such establishments.
** A direct benefit is that these workers will have access to social security benefits of the organized sector.
Definitions :
** The definitions mentioned in The Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952, Section 2 would be applicable mutatis mutandis to the PMRPY scheme as well.
The following definitions would also be relevant:
** Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) are the monthly challans/returns submitted online to the EPFO by the employers/establishments.
** Universal Account Number (UAN) are the unique account number issued by the EPFO to the employees. For the purpose of the PMRPY Scheme, the UANs need to be Aadhaar seeded and verified.
PMRPY Reference Base:
** For the PMRPY Scheme, the reference base is taken from the ECR return filed by the employer/establishment as on 31* March, 2016 and is the number of employees against whom the employer has deposited/filed the employer’s contribution of 12% (3.67% EPF + 8.33% EPS) of wages with EPFO.
** Similarly for 2017-18, the reference base will be taken as 31* March, 2017 and so on in Subsequent years.
** In case of new establishments getting registered with EPFO after 01* April, 2016, the reference base would be taken as Zero/NIL and all new employees would be entitled to be covered under the Scheme, subject to other eligibility conditions.
National Industrial Classification Code (NIC) – 2008 : is the code developed and maintained by Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation for codification and categorisation of industries based on their economic activity.
New Employee : for the purposes of the Scheme, is an employee earning less than Rs. 15000 per month, who was not working in any establishment registered with the EPFO in the past and did not have a Universal Account Number prior to 01*
Scheme Eligibility :
** All establishments registered with Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) can apply for availing benefits under the scheme subject to the following conditions
** Establishments registered with the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) should also have a Labour Identification Number (LIN) allotted to them under the Shram Suvidha Portal (shramsuvidha.gov.in).
** The LIN will be the primary reference number for all communication to be made under the PMRPY Scheme.
** The eligible employer must have added new employees to the reference base of workers in order to avail benefits under the Scheme from August, 2016 onwards.
** The reference base of workers will be determined by the number of employees against whom the employer has deposited the 12% (3.67% EPF + 8.33% EPS) with EPFO as on 31* March, 2016, as ascertained/verified from the monthly ECR for March, 2016.
** For example, an establishment, say M/s ABC Ltd. had filed an ECR for the employers’ contribution for 45 employees/workers in March, 2016. In the month of April, 2016, the establishment has added, say, 15 new workers bringing the total of employees to 60, the employer will be eligible to apply for the PMRPY scheme benefits for these 15 new employees.
** The employer will not be eligible to avail of PMRPY benefits if there is no new employment vis-à-vis the reference base in any subsequent month.
** The new employee, as mentioned in para 5(e) above, is one that had not worked in any EPFO registered establishment or had a Universal Account Number, in the past, i.e. prior to 01*April, 2016.
** For new establishment coming into existence/getting registered with EPFO after 01* April, 2016, the reference base will be taken as Zero/NIL employees.
** Thus, the employer can avail of PMRPY benefits for all new eligible employees.
** The PMRPY Scheme is targeted for employees earning wages less than Rs 15,000/- per month.
** Thus, new employees earning wages more than Rs 15,000/- per month will not be eligible.
** A new employee is one who has not been working in an EPFO registered establishment on a regular basis prior to 01* April, 2016 and will be determined by the allocation of a new Aadhaar seeded Universal Account Number (UAN) on or after 01.04.2016. In case the new employee does not have a new UAN, the employer will facilitate this through the EPFO portal.
** The employers will continue to get the 8.33% contribution paid by the Government for these eligible new employees for the next 3 years, provided they continue in employment by the same employer.
** The 8.33% contribution will be paid by GO! after the employer has remitted the 3.67% EPF contribution for these new employees each month.
** To avoid any penalty on the EPF/EPS contribution, the employer is advised to submit the PMRPY online form at the earliest, preferably by the 10″ of the following month.
** 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 1430.
** The Government, in this case, will also pay the EPF contribution of 3.67% in addition to paying the EPS contribution of 8.33%.
** The payment of 8.33% EPS and 3.67% EPF by the Government will be made after the employer has credited the 12% EPF contribution of the employees with EPFO