As many as 4,474,859 jobs were created during September 2017 to May this year, according to the Retirement fund body Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) payroll data.
However, the retirement body lowered earlier estimate of new members enrolment by 9.57%, from 4,126,138 to 3,731,251 for September 2017-April this year, media reports said.
According to the payroll data released by the EPFO last month for September to April, as many as 4,126,138 new members were enrolled for its social security schemes to provide benefits, including provident fund, insurance and pension.
The latest data, released on Friday, the new members’ enrolment in May is the highest so far in the last eight month at 7,43,608, reported PTI.
During May, the maximum number of enrolment of 2,51,526 were recorded in the age bracket of 18 to 21 years followed by 1,90,090 in 22 to 25 years age group, the report said.
The payroll data statement says that the data is provisional as the updating of employees records is a continuous process and gets updated in subsequent months.
It also reportedly stated that the estimates may include temporary employees, whose contributions may not be continuous for the entire year.
For each age-wise band, the estimates are net of the members enrolled and ceased during the month as per the EPFO records, it added.
The EPFO manages social security funds of workers in the organised/semi organised sector. It runs three social security scheme Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme 1952, Employees’ Deposit Linked Scheme 1976 (EDLS) and Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995. It manages the accounts of over six crore members and a corpus of over Rs 10 lakh crore, the report highlighted.