India, Feb. 12 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

Year

2019-20

2023-24

New Establishments

*1,17,064

*2,94,910

Year

2019-20  

2023-24

Avg. no. of Contributing Members

#4,89,21,025

#7,37,39,204

The following initiatives have been taken to expand registration and improve regional coverage:

Further, from February 2020, auto registration under EPFO is being done for Public and Private Limited Companies and One Person Companies at Ministry of Corporate Affairs registration portal through Spice+ and AGILE-PRO e-forms.

As a result of these interventions, the new establishment registration and number of contributory members have progressed quite significantly.

* It is seen that there is an increase of 251% i...