The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on September 10, 2021 has issued extension of timelines for electronic submission of Annual Performance report (APAR) for the year 2020-21 through HR soft application software.
The activities and the revised guidelines are as followed:
• Generation of APAR, July 31, 2021
• Submission of self-appraisal to reporting officer, September 30, 2021
• Forwarding of report by Reporting Officer to Reviewing Officer, October 30, 2021
• Report to be submitted by Reviewing Officer, December 15, 2021
• Disclosure to the officer reported upon, December 31, 2021
• Submission of representation, if any, on APAR, 15 days from the date of disclosure
• Forwarding of representation to the Competent Authority, January 31, 2022
• Disposal of representation by the Competent Authority, within one month of receipt of representation by the competent authority.
• Communication of the decision of the Competent Authority on the representation by the APAR Cell, Within 15 days of the finalisation of decision by competent authority.
• End of entire APAR process, after which the APAR will be finally taken on record, March 31, 2022.
