Yes, finally the EPF folks have provided the facility to check you EPF balance online. Though it is available for only few cities now, they will add more in coming months. I made a query for my EPF balance and i got an sms. The only drawback is the data is old, the date is as on 31/03/2010. Hope they update it upto the current year. But still its a good initiative by them.
Rakesh