Lok Sabha Question No. 129 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-11-30
Subject: Pending Disposal Cases under PF Appellate Authority
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: RAMCHARAN BOHARA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 129

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.11.2015

## PENDING DISPOSAL CASES UNDER PF APPELLATE AUTHORITY

†129. SHRI RAM CHARAN BOHRA:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)whether  the  rate  of  disposal  of  Provident  Fund  (PF)  cases  is  very slow on account of insufficient number of Regional Provident Fund Appellate Authority;
- (b)if  so,  the  total  number  of  cases  referred  to  the  said  authority  for disposal  during  each  of  the  last  three  years  and  the  current  year along with the number of such cases lying pending during the said period, State/UT-wise;
- (c)whether the Government proposes to set up more regional benches of the said authority; and
- (d)if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/UT-wise  and  if  not,  the  reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA)

(a) & (b): There  is  a  provision  of  an  Employees'  Provident  Fund Appellate Tribunal under Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act (EPF & MP), 1952. Only one Tribunal has been working at Delhi till date.  One Bench of the Tribunal has been constituted at Bangaluru w.e.f. 7.11.2014 in respect of establishments situated within the territories of the States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Goa, and the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry.

Contd..2/-

The  total  number  of  cases  filed  before  the  Tribunal  during  the  last three years including current year is given below:-

2012 :

1030

2013 :

884

2014 :

1384

2015 :

1348 (as on 23/11/2015)

The total number of pending cases before the Tribunal during the last three years including current year State/UT wise is at Annex.

(c): At present, no such proposal is under consideration of the Government.

(d): Does not arise in view of reply to part (c) above.

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Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (b)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question No.129 for reply on 30.11.2015 by Shri Ram Charan Bohra  regarding Pending disposal cases under PF Appellate Authority

| State                      |   2012 |   2013 |   2014 |   2015 |
|----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Andhra Pradesh & Telangana |     35 |     27 |     35 |     38 |
| North East States          |      1 |      2 |      1 |      2 |
| Bihar                      |      8 |      9 |     10 |     15 |
| Delhi                      |     16 |     30 |     80 |    119 |
| Gujarat                    |     44 |     17 |     28 |     28 |
| Karnataka                  |     43 |     55 |     90 |    131 |
| Kerala                     |    109 |     81 |    142 |    167 |
| Madhya Pradesh             |     53 |     35 |     46 |     46 |
| Maharashtra                |     56 |     52 |    111 |    172 |
| Odisha                     |     14 |      2 |     15 |     22 |
| Punjab                     |     43 |     18 |     31 |     60 |
| Rajasthan                  |     22 |     14 |     16 |     44 |
| Tamilnadu                  |    108 |     96 |    160 |    205 |
| Uttar Pradesh              |     28 |     38 |     41 |     40 |
| West Bengal                |     20 |      4 |     52 |     77 |
| Haryana                    |     10 |     23 |     26 |     28 |
| Himachal Pradesh           |      3 |      4 |      4 |     19 |
| Jharkhand                  |      1 |      2 |      1 |      4 |
| Chhattisgarh               |      5 |      8 |     10 |      4 |
| Goa                        |      5 |      4 |      5 |      6 |
| Uttrakhand                 |      8 |      4 |     17 |     10 |
| Total                      |    632 |    525 |    921 |   1237 |

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