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HR software for SMEs in Arunachal Pradesh
Offrd gives businesses in Itanagar, Naharlagun, and across Arunachal Pradesh one platform for offer letters, payslips with PF and ESI, attendance, and HR policies. Pay 99 rupees per document or 50 rupees per employee per month. Setup takes under 2 minutes and new accounts get 50 free credits.
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A growing state with its own rules of the road
Arunachal Pradesh had 48,870 enterprises registered on the Udyam portal as of 28 February 2026, per a Ministry of MSME reply tabled in Parliament (PIB, 2026). The state's new Industrial Development and Investment Policy, 2025, notified by the Department of Industries, names food processing, bamboo and cane products, textiles and Arunachal handlooms and handicrafts, and tourism among its priority sectors. Each of those sectors hires people, and each new hire generates paperwork.
Two quirks make HR in Arunachal different from the rest of India. First, the state has no professional tax statute, so payslips carry no PT line at all. Second, ESI arrived only recently: the scheme was extended to Arunachal Pradesh for the first time from 1 November 2020, beginning with Papum Pare district, home to Itanagar and Naharlagun, covering factories with 10 or more workers and employees earning up to 21,000 rupees a month, per PIB (2020). An employer here needs software that gets these details right rather than assuming every state looks like Maharashtra.
Here is what the first year with Offrd looks like for an Arunachal SME, step by step.
From first hire to first exit: a 12 month timeline
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Day 1 · The offer
Send a compliant offer letter before the candidate cools off
Good candidates in Itanagar get picked up fast, often by government adjacent projects. With Offrd you enter name, role, and CTC, and the offer letter goes out the same afternoon, salary annexure included. The structure auto balances to the CTC, with Basic defaulting to 50 percent in line with the Code on Wages. If you prefer to start from a format, the appointment letter format guide shows what a compliant letter must carry.
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Week 1 · Joining
Onboard with verified Aadhaar, PAN, and bank details
Onboarding collects and verifies identity and bank data before the first salary run, and an appointment letter follows automatically. Written appointment letters are mandatory under the Labour Codes in force since 21 November 2025, so this step is law, not nicety. Resume screening and a prehire module sit upstream if you are still choosing between candidates.
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Month 1 · The rhythm
Attendance and leave settle into a routine
The bundled Atndnz app tracks attendance with QR check in and GPS, which suits crews split between a Naharlagun office and field sites. Leave goes to one line manager by email. No approval matrices to configure, because a 25 person company does not need them.
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Month 1, day 30 · First payroll
Payslips with the right deductions, and only the right ones
Payroll applies EPF at 12 percent for employer and employee up to the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling, ESI at 3.25 and 0.75 percent where your unit is covered, and gratuity accrual. No PT line appears, because Arunachal levies none. Use the ESI contribution calculator to preview the numbers for any salary.
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Quarter 2 · Maturity
Policies, confirmations, and increments without a consultant
Probation confirmations and increment letters generate from the same employee records. The policy builder walks you through POSH, leave, conduct, and IP policies by questionnaire. At year end, Form 16 generation is part of the platform, so the tax season scramble shrinks too.
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Whenever it comes · The exit
Full and final settlement with a clean audit trail
When someone moves on, the settlement letter pulls from the same salary heads as the payslips, with reference IDs and standard deduction heads. The person leaves with correct paperwork and you keep a record an auditor can follow.
Arunachal employment basics, on one screen
| Item | Position in Arunachal Pradesh |
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| Professional tax | Not levied. The state has no professions tax statute, so payslips carry no PT deduction. |
| ESI | Extended to the state from 1 November 2020, starting with Papum Pare district. Standard rates: 3.25 percent employer, 0.75 percent employee, up to 21,000 rupees gross. |
| EPF | 12 percent employer and 12 percent employee, capped at the 15,000 rupee wage ceiling. |
| Shop licences | Trade licences issue through district administration, with online services on the state's ease of doing business portal. |
| Appointment letters | Mandatory under the Labour Codes in force since 21 November 2025. |
| Registered MSMEs | 48,870 on the Udyam portal as of 28 February 2026 (PIB). |
Offrd keeps these positions current inside the product, so a payslip for a Pasighat food processing unit or an Itanagar hotel carries the right lines without anyone rereading notifications. Pricing stays the same everywhere: 99 rupees per document, or 50 rupees per active employee per month, with no setup fee and no minimum headcount. For a business hiring a handful of people a quarter, that is a fraction of what monthly minimum HRMS plans charge, and you can verify the arithmetic in an idle ten minutes with our cost per hire calculator.
Where Offrd fits Arunachal's priority sectors
The 2025 industrial policy's priority list reads like a roster of Offrd's customer types elsewhere in India. A food processing unit near Pasighat carries shift workers and supervisors who need appointment letters, monthly payslips, and attendance records an inspector can read. A bamboo and cane products firm converting artisans to salaried staff needs the formalisation paperwork done in batches, not one Word file at a time. A tourism operator in Tawang or Ziro staffs up for the season and winds down after it, which is exactly the shape pay per document pricing was built for. A handloom and textiles business in Itanagar wants payslips its bank will accept when staff apply for loans.
In each case the work is the same five things: documents, payroll, attendance, leave, and policies. Offrd does those five and declines the rest. No OKR module, no 360 reviews, no expense management, no enterprise implementation cycle. The restraint is deliberate. It keeps setup under 2 minutes, keeps the price at 99 rupees a document, and keeps the product learnable by whoever in your office already does the admin, without a training call.
And if you ever leave, you leave with everything. Records export as CSV, payroll history includes EPF return formats, and generated documents are PDFs in your hands from day one. For a small business weighing a new vendor in a state where software salesmen rarely visit, that exit door matters as much as the entrance.
Frequently asked questions
Does Arunachal Pradesh deduct professional tax from salaries?
No. Arunachal Pradesh has no professional tax statute in its state law collection, so there is no PT line on an Arunachal payslip. PF, ESI where notified, and TDS still apply under central rules.
Does ESI apply to businesses in Itanagar?
ESI was extended to Arunachal Pradesh for the first time from 1 November 2020, starting with Papum Pare district, which includes Itanagar and Naharlagun. Factories there employing 10 or more persons became eligible, covering employees earning up to 21,000 rupees a month. Coverage of other districts follows ESIC notifications.
How do shops in Arunachal Pradesh register?
Shops in Arunachal Pradesh commonly operate on trade licences issued through the district administration, and the state offers online licence services through its ease of doing business portal. The state Labour Department lists registration services for establishments employing contract labour.
What does Offrd cost for a small Arunachal business?
99 rupees per document on pay per use, or 50 rupees per active employee per month on subscription. Every new account starts with 50 free credits. The Atndnz attendance app is free for paying Offrd users.
Can Offrd generate appointment letters that meet the Labour Codes?
Yes. Written appointment letters are mandatory under the Labour Codes in force since 21 November 2025, and Offrd generates them in current statutory formats along with offer, increment, probation, and separation letters.
Who should pick something else
Candour saves everyone time. If your company runs past 200 employees with a dedicated HR team, an OKR cadence, and a formal review cycle, a full HRMS will serve you better, and we will say so on the demo call. If your single biggest pain is automated statutory filing rather than documents and payroll arithmetic, a payroll first product with filing rails is the closer fit. Offrd is for the 5 to 75 person business that wants the basics done well at a price that does not need a committee to approve. In Arunachal Pradesh, where the median registered enterprise is small and the consultant network is thin on the ground, that describes most employers we meet. The 50 free credits exist so you can test that claim against your own paperwork before spending a rupee.
Make your next Itanagar hire the easy kind
50 free credits on signup. 99 rupees a document after that, or 50 rupees per employee per month. Setup in under 2 minutes.
Questions? Write to service@offrd.coLast updated: 12 September 2026