EPFO Regional Office Jammu receives Bhavishya Nidhi Award in category of ‘Best Performing Remote Office’

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JAMMU: EPFO Regional Office, Jammu has received a Bhavishya Nidhi Award in the category of “Best Performing Remote Office” at a function held in New Delhi by EPFO Head Office. The award was presented to Rizwan Uddin, Regional PF Commissioner – I, Jammu, Srinagar and Leh by Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, Bhupender Yadav at a grand function held at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi as part of celebration of 70th Foundation Day of EPFO.
In the Bhavishya Nidhi Award function, Rizwan Uddin received the award in the presence of other dignitaries which included Rameshwar Teli, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, Arti Ahuja, Secretary (Labour and Employment), Neelam Shami Rao, Central Provident Fund Commissioner (EPFO), Rajendra Kumar, Director General (ESIC), Manju Kumar, Chief Postmaster General (Delhi Circle, India Post), Dagmar Walter, Director ILO (India and South Asia) among other higher officers and dignitaries of EPFO and other organisations. The award witnessed participation from the EPFO offices of all over India and awards were presented to offices in various categories for their outstanding performance in the respective categories.
Regional Office, Jammu was awarded for its impressive all-roundperformance in multiple parameters such as increase in membership, outreach programmes, organising webinars and seminars, efforts made in the field of pension, e-nomination, recovery of dues and some other parameters.
Rizwan Uddin expressed his gratitude to all the stakeholders including members, employers, staff and officers of the office and higher officers of the Zonal Office, and Head Office and said that the office was able to accomplish this feat only with their support. On the occasion he said that the office has been taking various initiatives to increase the coverage, compliance,and awareness among stakeholders such as conduct of regular awareness and outreach programmes through seminars and webinars, while at the same timebeing accessible to stakeholders through emails, telephone,and social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Koo etc.
Other innovative measures taken at RO Jammu which helped in increasing efficiency and effectiveness of its service delivery includes providing option to employees to attend office in Flexi-time mode to capitalise on the office system and infra, motivating staff to attend the office even on off days, simplification and streamlining of the process to make corrections in member profile through Joint Declaration Forms, holding of Nidhi Aapke Nikat and grievance redressal sessions on regular basis among others.
On this occasion Regional Office, Jammu reaffirms its commitment to provide services to all its stakeholders in an efficient, effective, and transparent manner and expects continued support of all the stakeholders of the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh towards its march to greater heights.
Team members of EPFO RO Jammu under the leadership of Rizwan Uddin, RPFC – I, who made contributions towards this accomplishment include Ajit Mishra, RPFC – II, Harinder Singh, RPFC – II, Vijay Choithani, EO/AO, Shiva Murthy T, EO/AO, Jagpreet Singh Cheema, EO/AO, Sanjeev Kumar, EO/AO, Bipin Kumar, EO/AO, Amit Jakhmola, EO/AO, Pramod Kumar Singh, EO/AO, Mini S, DPA, Pramod G. Lokhande, DPA, Rajan T, DPA, Pritpal Singh, ASO, Pranav Gupta, ASO, Mukesh Kumar, SS, Chiranji Lal Sharma, SS, Rajander Kumar, SS, Tamilselvam S, Sr. SSA, Dharmendra Kumar, Sr. SSA, Sachin Bhardwaj, Sr. SSA, Arpit Singhal, Sr. SSA, Sanjeev Kumar, Sr. SSA, Arun Kumar, Sr. SSA, Ketan Saxena, Sr. SSA, Md. Arman Alam, Sr. SSA, Subhash Chandra, Sr. SSA, Ravi Kumar, Sr. SSA, Raja Ramanna, Sr. SSA and Rajan Kumar, Sr. SSA.
EPFO Jammu has small team comprising of outsourced employees Kanchan, Archana, Shilpi, Deepak and Rahul who work consistently and communicate with Establishments to remit contributions regularly.