About
The Employees’ Provident Fund is one of the World’s largest Social Security Organisations in terms of clientele and the volume of financial transactions undertaken. At present it maintains 24.77 crore accounts (Annual Report 2019-20) pertaining to its members.
EPFO came into existence with the promulgation of the Employees’ Provident Funds Ordinance on the 15th November, 1951. It was replaced by the Employees’ Provident Funds Act, 1952. The EPFO is under the administrative control of Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India.
The Board operates three schemes -
EPF Scheme 1952
Pension Scheme 1995 (EPS)
Insurance Scheme 1976 (EDLI)
UPSC EPFO
It is a national exam under the Ministry of Labor and Employment annually conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for the posts of Enforcement Officer (EO)/ Accounts Officer (AO).
UPSC EPFO Exam is conducted in two phases which are given below:
1. Recruitment Test (RT): The UPSC EPFO Recruitment Test (RT) will be pen and paper-based and the candidates who qualify recruitment test will be eligible for the interview round.
The test is of two hours duration.
All questions carries equal marks.
The test is objective type questions with multiple choices of answers.
The medium of the test is both Hindi and English.
There is penalty for wrong answers. Every wrong answer carries a deduction of one-third of the marks assigned to that question.
If no answer is marked for a question, there is no penalty for that question.
2. Interview
The final selection of a candidate is based on the marks obtained in Recruitment Test and Interview.
Syllabus
| General English | Cloze Test, Error Spotting, Fill in the Blanks, Para Jumbles, Phrases/ Idioms, Phrase replacement, Reading comprehension, Sentence completion/ para completion, Spellings, Synonyms/Antonyms. |
|---|---|
| Indian Freedom Struggle: | British extension: The Carnatic Wars, invasion of Bengal. Mysore and its confrontation with British expansion: The three Anglo-Maratha Wars. Regulating and Pitt’s India Acts. Early composition of the British raj. Confrontation to British rule: Early uprisings, The 1857 Revolt-reasons, character, course and result, Indian Freedom struggle the first stage: Growth of national consciousness; creation of Associations; Establishment of the Indian National Congress and its Moderate stage; Swadeshi Movement; Economic Nationalism; The development of Extremism and the split in Congress; The policy of Divide and Rule; Congress-League Pact of 1916. Gandhian thoughts and techniques of mass mobilization: Civil Disobedience, the Khilafat movement, Non-Cooperation Movement, and Quit India Movement; another strand in the National Movement-Revolutionaries, Subhash Chandra Bose, and the Indian National Army. |
| Current Events & Developmental Issues | Current events basically refer to as the dailycurrent affairs that are important from an exam point of view. Developmental Issues confine to the schemes and laws made public by the government to maintain the decorum and for the ease of run of the constitution. developmental issues also cover the yojana’s revealed by the government for the betterment of the public. |
| Indian Polity & Economy | Indian Polity: Indian Constitution, historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, the conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these, Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes, Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues/ Indian Economy: Economic growth and development – basic concept and definition of economy and economics, use and transfer of resources, distributive effects, macro and microeconomic policy, micro-macro balance, distributive impact of economic policies, Inclusion – definition, relevance, types, financial inclusion, recent initiatives. Fiscal policy – definition, component, receipts, revenue and capital account, tax revenue, expenditure, budget. |
| General Accounting principles | Principles of Accounting, Analyzing & Recording Transactions, Adjustments & Financial Statements, Completion of the accounting cycles, Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals. |
| Industrial Relations & Labour Laws | Labour Laws: Labour Laws: About, Types, Areas implemented, sectors applicable, overview. Industrial Relations: Industrial relations code (IRC) Bill, Model of labour reforms. |
| General Science & Knowledge of Computer Applications | General Science: Physics, Chemistry, Life Science Computer Applications: Computer organisations, Operating Systems, Database management, Data structures, Data communications, Computer networks |
| Quantitative Aptitude & General Mental Ability | Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables), Data sufficiency Syllogism, Puzzles & More. |
| Social Security In India | History of Social security, Social Security in India, Social Security: Constitutional Provisions Concurrent List, Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy, Difference between Organized and Unorganized Sectors SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS in India, Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act), Employees’ Provident Funds Act, 1952, Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (WC Act), Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (M.B. Act), Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (P.G. Act), Social Security In India: Different From Developed Nations, Provident Fund. |
Exam Pattern
| Exam | Marks | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment Test | 300 | 75% |
| Interview | 100 | 25% |