EPFO PA 2024 Syllabus

EPFO PA 2024 Syllabus

The UPSC EPFO Personal Assistant syllabus of the Test broadly comprises the following topics:

i) General English- To evaluate the candidate's understanding of the English language & workman-like use of words.

ii) Indian Freedom Struggle.

iii) Current Events and Developmental Issues.

iv) Indian Polity & Economy.

v) General Accounting Principles.

vi) Industrial Relations & Labour Laws.

vii) General Science & knowledge of Computer applications.

viii) Reasoning & Computer Aptitude 

ix) Quantitative Aptitude.

x) Social Security in India

The detailed UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus is given below:

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for General English

Below mentioned are the important topics for General English are:

• Phrase replacement
• Reading Comprehension
• Sentence completion/ para completion
• Cloze Test
• Error Spotting
• Fill in the Blanks
• Para Jumbles
• Phrases/ Idioms
• Spellings
• Synonyms/Antonyms

UPSC EPFO PA Indian Freedom Struggle Syllabus

British extension: The Carnatic Wars, invasion of Bengal. Mysore and its confrontation with British expansion: The three Anglo-Maratha Wars. Regulating and Pitt's India Acts. Early composition of the British raj.

Confrontation to British rule: Early uprisings, The 1857 Revolt-reasons, character, course and result, Indian Freedom struggle the first stage: Growth of national consciousness; creation of Associations; Establishment of the Indian National Congress and its Moderate stage; Swadeshi Movement; Economic Nationalism; The development of Extremism and the split in Congress; The policy of Divide and Rule; Congress-League Pact of 1916.

Gandhian thoughts and techniques of mass mobilization:

Civil Disobedience, the Khilafat movement, Non-Cooperation Movement, and Quit India Movement; another strand in the National Movement-Revolutionaries, Subhash Chandra Bose, and the Indian National Army.

UPSC EPFO PA Indian Polity & Economy Syllabus

Indian Economy: Economic growth and development – basic concept and definition of economy and economics, use and transfer of resources, distributive effects, macro and microeconomic policy, micro-macro balance, distributive impact of economic policies, Inclusion – definition, relevance, types, financial inclusion, recent initiatives. Fiscal policy – definition, component, receipts, revenue and capital account, tax revenue, expenditure, budget.

Indian Polity: Indian Constitution, historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, the conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these, Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes, Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues/

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for Current Events & Developmental Issues

Current events basically refer to as the daily current affairs that are important from an exam point of view. Developmental Issues confine to the schemes and laws made public by the government to maintain the decorum and for the ease of run of the constitution. developmental issues also cover the yojanas revealed by the government for the betterment of the public.

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for General Accounting Principles

Principles of Accounting, Analyzing & Recording Transactions, Adjustments and financial Statements, Completion of the accounting cycles, Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals.

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for Industrial Relations & Labour Laws

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Industrial Relations:

Industrial relations code (IRC) Bill, Model of labour reforms

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Labour Laws:

About, Types, Areas implemented, sectors applicable, overview

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for General Science & Knowledge of Computer

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for General Science:

Physics, Chemistry, Life Science

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Computer Applications:

Computer organisations, Operating Systems, Database management, Data structures, Data communications, Computer networks

UPSC EPFO PA Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning & Computer Aptitude

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude:

Number Systems, Percentage, Profit & Loss, Average Ratio, SI & CI and Arithmetic questions.

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Reasoning & Computer Aptitude

Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables), Data sufficiency Syllogism, Puzzles & More.

EPFO PA Syllabus for Social Security in India

What is Social Security?, History of Social Security, Social Security in India, Social Security: Constitutional Provisions Concurrent List, Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy, Difference between Organized and Unorganized Sectors SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS in India, Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act), Employees' Provident Funds Act, 1952, Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (WC Act), Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (M.B. Act), Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (P.G. Act), Social Security In India: Different From Developed Nations, Provident Fund.