THROUGH a statement issued from New Delhi on March 15, 2014, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has denounced the anti-worker bias of the UPA government which has not yet notified the increase in minimum pension to Rs 1,000 under the EPF pension scheme and enhancement of the ceiling of contribution and coverage which has been unanimously recommended by the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation on February 4, 2014 and sent to the government for immediate action on the same. The CITU statement recalled that the trade union movement has been agitating, for the last five years or so, on the demand of an enhancement of the minimum guaranteed pension under the EPF scheme. This demand was one of the ten point demands on which all the central trade unions and national federations have been conducting countrywide agitations and strikes from 2009. In May 2013, the government too committed to the central trade unions for an early decision on the issue. Some time in the third week of January  2014, the, the government came out in public to announce its decision about a minimum pension under the EPF pension scheme of Rs 1,000 and raising the eligibility wage ceiling to Rs 15,000. On February 5, 2014, in an urgently called meeting of the Central Board of Trustees, the matter was discussed and the CBT made a unanimous recommendation on the issue, including its date of effect from April 1, 2014. Moreover, well before the election schedule was announced on March 5, 2014, the union cabinet has reportedly cleared the recommendation for augmenting the minimum pension amount to Rs 1,000 and the eligibility wage ceiling to Rs 15,000 by the end of February itself, and it was again announced in the media. But, unfortunately, no official notification has yet been made, and neither the EPF office nor the labour ministry could yet throw any light on the fate of that decision. The CITU has also noted that in their election campaign the Congress leaders have been taking the credit for an increase in the minimum pension. But at the same time it has been noted the UPA ministers are going overboard to persuade the Election Commission, on behalf of their corporate and business house partners for allowing them to announce the entry of FDI in multi-brand retail trade or increasing the price of natural gas and other decisions in favour of the corporate interests. On the other hand, any initiative to issue a notification on the increase in minimum pension amount under the EPF pension scheme, which is going to benefit 27 lakh workers of the lowest strata in particular, is not yet visible. This exposes the brazen pro-rich bias of the UPA government. Denouncing such an anti-worker bias of the UPA government, the CITU has demanded that the government must immediately issue a notification in this regard, on which the decision has already been taken and announced well before the election was announced. The CITU has asked the workers to launch united protest against such an anti-worker attitude of the government.