Incentive refund scheme

According to the incentive refund scheme of the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, employers can claim 10 per cent refund of administrative charges paid during the quarter if they provided details of 80 per cent contributing members, seeded Aadhar details for 80 per cent members, and has UAN activation for all contributing members.

They can claim 5 per cent refund if they provided details of 60 per cent of contributing members, seeded Aadhar for 70 per cent of contributing members and activated UAN for 60 per cent members.

The establishments should have achieved the criteria for every month of the quarter, according to a press release.

Seminar

Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC)-KTM will organise a seminar on “warp knitting: the technology for synthetic fabric innovation” on March 16 at its Knitwear Technology Mission Campus in Avinashi.

According to a press release, the seminar focuses on latest developments in synthetic fabric production and dyeing and finishing of synthetic fabrics.

For registration, contact: 9750060111 or 04296-272706.

Skill development

Finolex Industries has launched skill development programme for plumbers, jointly with CREDAI Pune Metro and the National Skill Development Corporation. It plans to train one lakh plumbers in the next five to seven years.

The company also conducted 60 plumber meets across the country (58 cities) for World Plumbing Day. About 3000 plumbers took part in the meets, according to a press release.

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