UPSC EPFO 2020-21 Syllabus – Exam Scheme

UPSC EPFO Syllabus For Written Test

UPSC EPFO syllabus for the written test broadly comprises the following topics –

• General English- To evaluate a candidate’s understanding of English language & workmanlike use of words
• Indian Freedom Struggle
• Current Events and Developmental Issues
• Indian Polity & Economy
• General Accounting principles
• Industrial Relations & Labour Laws
• General Science & knowledge of Computer applications
• General Mental Ability & Quantitative Aptitude
• Social Security in India

Now we will further look into these broad topics to get a better understanding of the sub-topics to be covered under these.

For General English:

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

Indian Freedom Struggle:

UPSC EPF Syllabus for  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.

Current Events & Developmental Issues

Current events basically refers to as the daily current affairs that are important from 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 covers the yojana’s revealed by the government for the betterment of the public.

• Video Lessons, Textual Lessons & Notes
• Topic Tests covering all topics with detailed solutions
• Sectional Tests for QA, DI, EL, LR
• All India Mock Tests for performance analysis and all India percentile
• General Knowledge (GK) Tests

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – Indian Polity & Economy

UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer Syllabus For Indian Polity:

Indian Constitution, historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, 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 Syllabus For 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.

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – General Accounting principles

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

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – Industrial Relations & Labour Laws

Enforcement Officer Syllabus for Labour Laws –

• About,
• Types
• Areas implemented
• sectors applicable
• overview

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – Industrial Relations –

• Industrial relations code (IRC) Bill
• Model of labour reforms.

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – General Science & Knowledge of Computer Applications

UPSC Enforcement Officer 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 Syllabus – General Mental Ability & Quantitative Aptitude

UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude:

• Number Systems
• Percentage
• Profit & Loss
• Average
• Ratio
• SI & CI

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for General Mental Ability:

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

All this at Class X level.

UPSC EPFO Syllabus – 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.