"No Madam," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in written reply to Lok Sabha on a query whether the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has made it mandatory to submit Aadhaar Card details of employees for any PF transition.
The minister said that Aadhaar card is issued to resident of India. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has adopted multi-registrar model for enrolments.
Under the model, various non-government agencies such as banks, which, in the normal course of implementations of their operations interact with residents, are appointed as Registrar to enrol the residents.
Retirement fund body EPFO has recently decided to become a registrar of the UIDAI to facilitate enrolment of its subscribers who don't have Aadhaar numbers.
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EPFO wants to seed over 4.2 crore portable Universal PF Account Numbers issued by it, with the Aadhaar number of subscribers.
Certain facilities like online settlement of PF withdrawal claims can be provided to all those members whose PF accounts are seeded with Aadhaar number as biometric details would help to facilitate the big financial transactions.
Meanwhile, the minister informed the House that the government has introduced a digital life certificate scheme for retired employees and has also launched a fund portability scheme recently.
He also informed the House that at present 22.5 lakh persons have activated their universal PF account numbers (UANs) which will remain portable throughout the life of a subscribers.
The maximum number of 4.27 lakh UANs have been activated in Maharashtra followed by Karnataka (3.22 lakh) and Tamil Nadu (2.72 lakh).