Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Khargewho is also Chairman for CBT is hopeful that his Ministy would be able to persuade the Finance Ministry to give its nod for the decision of the Cental Board of Trustees (CBT) to incease the rate of interest on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from 8.5 to 9.5 per cent for 2010-11.
This would be benefit over 4.4 Crore PF Subscibers in the country. .
Source from Labour Minsitry Officials: The Officials said "We stand by our calculation and the decision to hike the interest rate by 1 % . The first such move since 2005-06, it was taken by the CBT on September 15, 2010, after analysing the figures and after getting satisfied that the surplus of Rs.1,731 crores in the Interest Suspense Account could be utilised for paying the additional interest rate. The increased interest rate will cost the Employees Provident Organisation (EP-FO) an additional Rs.1700 Crore."
The basic objetion of the Finance Ministry was how the EPFO could manage and sustain a huge increase of additional money involved for paying the new interest rate
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