India, March 26 -- The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is set to integrate Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to reduce transaction times and increase convenience.

"Our next step is to incorporate UPI into the system," news agency ANI quoted labour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra as saying on Monday.

"We have received suggestions from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) regarding this integration and have submitted a proposal to EPFO for consideration," she said.

Dawra said for this purpose, the EPFO has established a centralised database and that after conducting the necessary testing, the UPI frontend for EPFO claims may get rolled out by the end of May.

This means that all members can view their EPFO...