Interest rate on employees' provident fund will be increased to 8.6 per cent in the current fiscal from 8.25 per cent now. Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said in the Rajya Sabha while replying a debate on working of Labour Ministry. He said next time, it will be 8.6 per cent.
The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation had brought down the rate of interest to 8.25 per cent for 2011-12 from 9.5 per cent provided in 2010-11.
The retirement fund body EPFO has parked in excess of 55,000 crore rupees in the Special Deposit Schemes (SDS) aimed at providing better returns to non-government provident funds and other such funds. Kharge said the rate of interest on funds depend on the revenues.
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