Revamped ECR from Wage Month September 2025

EPFO to introduce a re-engineered Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) with stronger validations, segregated return & payment, and built-in damage/interest computation.

Key Features

“User Manual – Re-Engineered ECRS”: 4-Step Flow

1. Return filing – View/Upload Return
2. Regular Return
3. Supplementary Return
4. Revised Return

Approval & Payment Workflow

Employers can download the return statement, verify, and choose to approve or reject the file.

EPFO: Scale & Governance

EPFO ranks among the globe’s premier Social Security Organizations by client base and transaction volume, maintaining 29.88 crore accounts (Annual Report 2022–23).

Administration is overseen by the tripartite Central Board of Trustees (CBT).

Mission: deliver comprehensive social security in a transparent, contactless, faceless, and paperless manner.

How Karma Management Can Help

“At Karma Global, we continue to push the boundaries of how compliance, technology and people intersect—because the future of work demands nothing less,” says Pratik Vaidya, CVO & MD.

We manage PF operations for hundreds of clients pan-India, cutting monthly PF challans amounting to crores of rupees. Our teams keep employers ahead on PF compliance while aligning with government processes and schemes.