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As per a report by Zee News, recently a circular has been issued by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on the Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR) in respect of officers as well as staff has become due for report and review.
Amid the second wave of the pandemic, there is good news for Central government employees as their salary is all set to hike from July 1.
As per a report by Zee News, recently a circular has been issued by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on the Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR) in respect of officers as well as staff has become due for report and review.
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The Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR) module of the HR-Soft online window has been launched for the officers of EPFO from the present financial year, the EPFO said.
As per the report, the EPFO has also stated that with the launch of the APAR filling Module in the HR-Soft Application software, it is compulsory for all officers in the cadre to submit their self-appraisal to report, review and monitor the APAR of their through electronic mode only.
The officers in the cadre include ACC(HQ), ACC, RPFC-1, RPFC-11, APFC, DD(Vig), AD(Vig.), DD(IS), AD(IS), DD(OL), AD(OL), Director (OL), Section Officer and EO/AO.
The notification from the EPFO further added that the APAR in respect of the cadre other than the above categories will be submitted in an existing paper-based format.
The DoPT has issued an office memorandum due to the Covid-19 pandemic, extending timelines for APAR-related activities in respect of group ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ cadres.
The revised timelines from the DoPT have been prescribed for completion of APARs for the year 2020-21 in respect of all of group ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ cadres.
The centre had withheld the dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) of employees and pensioners last year. This DA and Dr is all set to be released this time as recently, the government has said in the Parliament that the stalled dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) will be resumed from July 1, 2021.
It is being said that lakhs of central government employees and pensioners are going to be benefited from the salary hike from July 1.
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