Every employee, including the one employed through a contractor (but excluding an apprentice engaged under the Apprentices Act or under the standing orders of the establishment and casual laborers), who is in receipt of wages upto Rs. 6,500 p.m., shall be eligible for becoming a member of the funds.

 

The condition of three months' continuous service or 60 days of actual work, for membership of the scheme, has been done away with, w.e.f. 1.11.1990. Workers are now eligible for joining the scheme from the date of joining the service.