JOIN USTrade unions have raised red flag against the retirement fund body EPFO's suo moto decision to make the submission of Aadhaar mandatory for its over 50 million existing subscribers and new members.
Questioning the decision of the Employee s' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), the trade union leaders said that it would be impossible for the members to provide Aadhaar numbers as the scheme was not operational in many parts of the country.
Also it was cumbersome to get the numbers in states where the scheme is operational.
“They should not have taken this decision suo moto. It should have been discussed in the EPFO's apex decision making body the Central Board of Trustees (CBT),” Bhartiya Majdoor Sangh General Secretary Baij Nath Rai said.
Rai who is an EPFO trustee also, further said, “It cannot be done outrightly as there are a lot of hiccups in making Aadhaar number in many parts of the country”.