EPF to go hightech soon

Anjana Samarasinghe

Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Department will be digitalized in one year's time, EPF Superintendent R. Dheerasinghe told Daily News Business.

She said the feasibility study for the project has been completed and they are seeking expert advice to do the cost analysis for the process. "EPF holds very old documents since 1958 and we need special equipment to digitalize these valuable documents,"she said.

According to Dheerasinghe, the Department needs a large amount of space to maintain these old documents and this digitalisation process will increase efficiency levels of the department and enable them to provide improved service to the public. Within three months time the EPF Department will be relocated in the newly refurbished Lloyd's Building at the Sir Baron Jayatilleke Mawatha yesterday.

"We will move into the Lloyd's Building in three phases and in the first phase we will be shifting our inquiry and collection services to this building," she said.