new delhi retirement fund body epfo has made a case for increase in governments contribution to its pension scheme eps95 to 179 per cent of basic wages from existing 116 per cent for ensuring rs 1000 per month to pensioners it is believed that there is a strong case for increasing the governments contribution from 116 per cent to 179 per cent to the eps95 employees pension scheme1995 fund to support a minimum pension of rs 1000 per month for all categories of epf95 pensioners epfo said in a letter to labour ministry according to the employees provident fund organisations epfo additional contribution of 063 per cent of workers basic wages to eps95 is required to pay minimum pension of rs 1000 per month to all categories of pensioners now the labour ministry would have to take up the issue with finance ministry for the purpose in the present scenario central government contributes 116 per cent of workers basic wages basic pay plus dearness allowance towards eps95 fund during 201213 government contributed around rs 1900 crore towards the eps95 fund which also includes some arrears the official estimates indicate that if the central government decides to increase its contribution to 179 per cent of the workers basic wages then they would have to pay additional amount of rs 750 crore to rs 800 crore during this fiscal this additional contribution would further increase to rs 1400 crore by 201819 however epfo is batting for increase in the governments contribution as neither the workers nor employers want to pay the additional 063 per cent of workers basis wages to ensure minimum pension of rs 1000 per month under the scheme the hike in contribution will be overandabove the 833 per cent contributed by employers toward the pension account of employees as well as the 116 per cent provided by the government under the scheme according to epfo data as of march 31 2010 there were 35 lakh pensioners subscribed to the retirement fund body of which 14 lakh persons get a monthly pension of less than rs 500 the number of epfo pensioners getting a monthly pension of rs 1000 is 7 lakh the data revealed there were cases where pensioners are getting a monthly pension as low as rs 12 and rs 38