New Delhi: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has rolled out the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign 2025 to enable employers to voluntarily declare and enrol eligible employees who were left out of EPF coverage between July 1, 2017, and October 31, 2025.

Commissioner of EPFO, Madurai Regional Office, S. Azhahiya Manavalan, said the campaign offers a special compliance window from November 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026.

Under the scheme, all establishments, irrespective of current EPF coverage, can enrol employees via the EPFO portal. Employers must generate Face Authentication-based UAN for each employee through the UMANG App and remit contributions using the Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR). For employees whose share was not previously deducted, the employee contribution is waived for the declared period. Employers are liable to pay only their share, interest, administrative charges, and a nominal lump-sum penal damage of Rs 100 per establishment.

The campaign aims to extend social security coverage, ensure voluntary compliance, and integrate previously excluded employees under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Employers participating in the scheme can also benefit from incentives under the PM-VBRY programme, subject to its terms and conditions.

The EPFO has emphasised that declarations made with misrepresentation or suppression of facts will be void and attract penal action under the EPF Act. Multiple declarations for the same employee are not permitted, and employees must be alive and currently employed on the date of declaration.

This initiative is part of a broader effort by the Ministry of Labour & Employment to enhance social security coverage in India and simplify compliance processes for employers, providing a structured opportunity to regularise past EPF contributions.