<p>The two offices will come up at Bommasandra and Krishnarajapuram.<br />Disclosing this after inaugurating the Regional Office of the EPFO here on Sunday Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said Bangalore which already has two regional offices at Bangalore City and Peenya have maximum concentration of workforce in the State, as hundreds of industrial establishments are coming up in and around Bangalore. The minister instructed Central Provident Commissioner Sameerendra Chatterjee to expedite the proposals for setting up of the new regional offices.<br />The two new regional offices will redress the grievances and settle the claims of subscribers soon in addition to streamlining the administration, he added.<br />The minister claimed that after his taking charge of the ministry certain imbalances in the State has been set right. <br /><br />Foundation stone has already been laid for the Rs 900-crore Medical Education Complex, comprising a super speciality hospital, medical college, dental college and a nursing college, in Gulbarga establishment of a Regional PF Office in Gulbarga, and a sub-regional office of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation in Gulbarga for which the foundation stone will be laid on July 10.<br />He said EPFO was the biggest organisation covering 6.16 lakh establishments and 5.85 crore members. <br /><br />The PF contributions from members last year stood at Rs.39,516 crore, which was about Rs 8,000 crore more than the previous year. The EPFO has made a total investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore mostly in banks.<br /><br />Grievance redressed<br />The Gulbarga Regional Office has jurisdiction over all the 13 districts of north Karnataka and Chitradurga district. <br />Hitherto, the entire north Karnataka was attached to the Mangalore Regional Office and the people of Hyderabad Karnataka were finding it very difficult to go to far-off Mangalore, to air their grievances.<br />DH News Service</p>
<p>The two offices will come up at Bommasandra and Krishnarajapuram.<br />Disclosing this after inaugurating the Regional Office of the EPFO here on Sunday Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said Bangalore which already has two regional offices at Bangalore City and Peenya have maximum concentration of workforce in the State, as hundreds of industrial establishments are coming up in and around Bangalore. The minister instructed Central Provident Commissioner Sameerendra Chatterjee to expedite the proposals for setting up of the new regional offices.<br />The two new regional offices will redress the grievances and settle the claims of subscribers soon in addition to streamlining the administration, he added.<br />The minister claimed that after his taking charge of the ministry certain imbalances in the State has been set right. <br /><br />Foundation stone has already been laid for the Rs 900-crore Medical Education Complex, comprising a super speciality hospital, medical college, dental college and a nursing college, in Gulbarga establishment of a Regional PF Office in Gulbarga, and a sub-regional office of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation in Gulbarga for which the foundation stone will be laid on July 10.<br />He said EPFO was the biggest organisation covering 6.16 lakh establishments and 5.85 crore members. <br /><br />The PF contributions from members last year stood at Rs.39,516 crore, which was about Rs 8,000 crore more than the previous year. The EPFO has made a total investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore mostly in banks.<br /><br />Grievance redressed<br />The Gulbarga Regional Office has jurisdiction over all the 13 districts of north Karnataka and Chitradurga district. <br />Hitherto, the entire north Karnataka was attached to the Mangalore Regional Office and the people of Hyderabad Karnataka were finding it very difficult to go to far-off Mangalore, to air their grievances.<br />DH News Service</p>
