• Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs launched a web portal of CMPFO namely C- CARES.
• It has been developed and designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an R&D organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

ABOUT CMPFO

• Coal Mines Provident Fund Organization (CMPFO) is an autonomous organization under the aegis of Ministry of Coal.
• Established in 1948, for administering provident fund and pension schemes for the purpose of providing social security to the coal sector workers.
• The organization is presently rendering services to about 3.3 lakh PF subscribers and 1 lakh pensioners of coal sector.
• At present, CMPFO process settlement claims of provident fund subscribers and pensioners manually.
• With the launch of the portal, settlement of PF and pension claims will now be processed and settled online.
• It will facilitate faster processing, transparency in operations, better record management and monitoring.
• It will also instill confidence in the subscribers and pensioners.