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However, there are social media posts that indicated that the website has been down since August last year.
Updated : Mar 24, 2018, 02:25 AM IST
At a time when the government is incentivising people to switch to digital payments and one of its main programmes is Digital India, its Unified Employment Provident Fund (EPF) website has been out of steam since February 8.
The Employment Provident Fund Organisation's Twitter handle informed its members on February 8 that the website was down and said services would be restored soon. However, a deadline or a date for revival of the services wasn't given.
"Sorry for your inconvenience the technical team is working on the operational issues of unified portal.service shall be available shortly."
Sorry for your inconvenience the technical team is working on the operational issues of unified portal.service shall be available shortly.
— EPF INDIA (@socialepfo) February 8, 2017
@socialepfo - its been long , Unified Portal is not working since long. Kindly check its been more than 2 weeks...
— Prashant Ojha (@prashantojha270) February 15, 2017
@socialepfo Please dont provide an open ended statement that service shall be available shortly. Provide an estimated timeline.
— Jasvinder Singh (@jassiwins) February 16, 2017
According to a report in The News Minute, while the government provided an alternate link, it only works for members who have already registered on the member portal. The online payment and transfer of funds for all the others have been stuck since February.
However, the aforementioned report which cites various social media posts by aggrieved parties, indicates that the website has been down since August 2016.