On the\u00a0International Women\u2019s Day, coinciding with the Iconic week of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, two key constituents of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Labour EPFO and ESIC along with DGMS ran a series of women-friendly measures including steps to process all claims of women, and a first of its kind \u201cWomen\u2019s Empowerment Desks\u201d to cater to women stakeholders for one-stop service delivery.<\/p>\n

A function was jointly organized by EPFO, ESIC & DGMS on the theme \u201cvalue and empower the women workforce\u201d\u00a0yesterday here , attended\u00a0by Shri\u00a0Bhupendra Yadav, Minister for Labour & Employment, Shri\u00a0Rameswar Teli, Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shri\u00a0Sunil Barthwal, Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Smt. Neelam Shami Rao, Central Provident Fund Commissioner, Shri M.S Bhatia, DG ESIC and others.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the occasion Shri Bhupendra Yadav lauded the unique initiatives taken by EPFO and ESIC two of the key constituents of Labour Ministry who are citizen-centric faces of the Government. He said, \u201cWhile EPFO symbolizes Trust, ESIC compliments through Services\u201d. Elaborating further he appreciated the unique services planned to celebrate women\u2019s day namely clearing of all women claims in EPFO and ESIC. He added that the Government of India is committed to not only ensuring equality at the workplace and not only to choose a work but also the freedom to choose the right work, and equal freedom to secure health. Sunil Bharthwal Labour Secretary in his address said that the larger goal of the Government is to ensure that Women\u2019s Participation in the workplace is in proportion to their population.<\/p>\n

As a part of Azadi ka Amrit Utsav, EPFO has been targeting 75 lakh e-nominations and especially for women\u2019s day, it has run a campaign to get the women workforce to file their e nominations. EPFO crossed its target by reaching a figure of 92 lakhs. Of these 70 lakhs chose women as their nominees thus empowering spouses, daughters, mothers.<\/p>\n

The special week-long drive was also attempted to accelerate the e-nominations of women members joining hands with the establishments and proactively reaching out to them through special camps by the field offices of EPFO. Responding to the call 10415 establishments reported 100% e-nominations of their female workforce. In total 7 lakh e-nominations were filed by women members, from just the top 100 establishments in the country.<\/p>\n

Chennai Zone received and processed a maximum number of claims and EPFO RO Coimbatore processed the maximum such claims. Of 7 lakh such e-nominations, Telangana Zone accounted for 44%. EPFO Nizamabad, a constituent office of Telangana Zone and primarily serving Beedi establishments accounted for 39% of all such e-nominations filed. These offices received a special recognition award.<\/p>\n

In yet another campaign, it targeted the processing of all women claims as of 5^{th<\/sup>\u00a0March 2022. This initiative ending March settled 144069 women claims for a total amount of about Rs 638 crores in a week-long exercise. Last year in 2021, EPFO had conducted a pilot of settling all claims of its female subscribers in one of its Delhi offices. This now has been replicated across all offices in India by EPFO to symbolically celebrate Women\u2019s Day 2022 as an empowerment display of priority services.<\/p>\n}

EPFO Noida bagged the award of being instrumental in toping total e nominations filed in all the three categories of small, medium and large establishments separately. The small category defined establishment subscriber\u2019s strength between 100-200, a medium between 201-200 the large ones as 500 or more subscribers. Two establishments namely Manpower Group Services Pvt of Delhi Ltd and M\/s Uflex Pvt. Ltd of Noida being amongst the top 75 establishments in the country to file maximum number of e-nominations received awards on behalf of all 75 establishments. All 75 such leading establishments get a special citation.<\/p>\n

The Minister virtually launched a \u201cWomen\u2019s Empowerment Desks\u201d in Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai as the first Women Empowerment Desk to cater to all women stakeholder interactions with EPFO today.<\/p>\n

The Minister also distributed recognition awards to 03 Women Corona Warriors from ESIC namely Dr. Jayashree Shiv Kumar Bhale, Andhra Pradesh, Mrs. Uma Gopinath, Medical Officer KK Nagar Mrs Meenakshi Paramedical Staff all of ESIC hospitals. He also felicitated 04 first time employed women mine-workers in India namely Aruna Narayan Sankatala and Bipasha Biswas of Opencast mines and Sandhya Rasakatla along with Yogeshwari Rane from underground mines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the\u00a0International Women\u2019s Day, coinciding with the Iconic week of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, two key constituents of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Labour EPFO and ESIC along with DGMS ran a series of women-friendly measures including steps to process all claims of women, and a first of its kind \u201cWomen\u2019s Empowerment Desks\u201d to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2131,8995,9002,9579,8996],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-media-jobs","8":"category-delhi","9":"category-government-press-release","10":"category-ministry-of-women-and-child-development","11":"category-new-delhi"},"yoast_head":"\n