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Employee provident fund organization has over 3.54 crore subscribers, 49.22 lakh pensioners and 6.1 lakh employers (as per government’s official source). In order to ease the pain of its subscribers from transferring EPF account from one employer to another, EPFO had launched Universal Account Number (UAN) which is a unique  12 digit number  allocated to the member by the employer. EPFO provides this number to the employer which they provide to their employees who opt for EPF contribution. After this, employee has to activate their UAN number. Till now, to activate the UAN number and get provident fund details, EPF subscriber had to visit http://uanmembers.epfoservices.in/ and activate the same. But what if the member does not have access to computer and they want to activate UAN and/or get their provident fund details? Considering this, EPFO has moved to being a tech savvy organization by launching three new mobile based services which can be used by employers, employees and pen