<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, EPFO has declared 8.55 per cent interest rate for 2017-18 for its about 5 crore members. This was decided during the meeting of Central Board of Trustees of EPFO in New Delhi.<br />''<br />''</span></div>''<div>For 2016-17 the rate was 8.65 per cent and in 2015-16 the rate was 8.8 per cent.</div>''<div><br />''In order to maintain the interest this fiscal, the organisation had sold a portion of its investment in the Exchange Traded Funds.&nbsp;</div>