Till some years back finding out the PF account status was not an easy task. You had to wait for the annual PF slips to know the PF balance. The alternative route went through the regional PF office. Few years ago, EPFO started to tell the EPF balance through the online mode. It helped a lot. Further, It also presented the EPF passbook to download. Today, you can get EPF balance through the missed call and SMS as well.
Employee Provident Fund organisation has launched many facilities of EPF balance enquiry. It wants you to keep track of your retirement corpus. So that, you can easily take appropriate, action if required. In fact, EPF balance may be your only saving for the retirement. For many of us the EPF is only regular saving which starts from the first day of the job. That is why, the government has made the EPF scheme mandatory for those workers who earns less than Rs 15,000 basic salary in a month.
After six months of offering all services for free, a plan that helped Reliance Jio net 100 million subscribers in a record time, chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said that Reliance Jio would not levy fees on calls. For the next financial year beginning April 1, the company’s existing users and those coming on board this March will continue to get 1 GB of data a day and all of Reliance Jio’s apps for Rs 303 a month and a one-time cost of Rs 99. By contrast, market leader Bharti Airtel offers unlimited calls and 1GB of 4G data at Rs 345 for 28 days.
