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What changes at the Purba Medinipur district boundary and what does not, for an employer in Haldia.
Please check this before you act on it. Offices move, jurisdictions get redrawn and rates are revised, often quietly. Ring the department to confirm the address, and get your CA or labour adviser to sign off the compliance position. Treat this as background, not advice. Offrd is independent of every office named above. Checked on 12 September 2026. If a detail has moved since, write to service@offrd.co.
Haldia's port and petrochemical reputation is backed by named plants in the government's own district profile, even though that profile does not put an investment or employment figure on the refinery itself, only on the smaller clusters around it.
All named in the district's MSME-DI profile as anchors of the town's industrial base, alongside the Kolaghat Thermal Power Project, though the profile gives no investment or headcount figure for these specific plants.
About Rs 21 crore in exports and 1,200 direct plus 3,000 indirect workers, the largest documented cluster in the district by combined employment.
Rs 1.37 crore turnover and about 1,000 workers.
The Haldia Growth Centre nearby covers 119.57 acres across 10 plots, none allotted as of the profile's data.
MSME and Udyam registration for the district.
Shops and establishment registration and labour compliance.
WB Labour DeptGST and commercial tax registration for employers.
WB Commercial TaxesThe state's single window portal for industry licensing and clearances.
SilpasathiConfirm this before you rely on it. Figures come from the district's MSME-DI profile with registration data through 2011-12. The profile names Haldia's large refinery and petrochemical plants but does not attach an investment, output or employment number to them, so we have reported that gap rather than estimate one. Office addresses and contact details can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office and its current jurisdiction before you act on it, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser. None of this is legal or tax advice. Offrd has no connection to the offices named and does not represent them. Checked 12 September 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us at service@offrd.co.
The benefit is paid at the average daily wage for the three months preceding, so the payroll entry is not simply the last monthly salary. Provident fund continues. The leave does not draw down the earned leave balance, and treating it as ordinary leave is a payroll error rather than a policy choice.
Keeping the maternity record separate in the attendance register is what makes the eighty day eligibility check possible later.
An establishment with fifty or more employees has to provide a creche facility and allow the employee four visits a day to it. Where the nature of the work allows, the employer and employee can agree to work from home after the leave ends, on terms they settle between them.
Every employer covered by the Act has to tell each woman in writing, at the time of appointment, what her benefits under the Act are. That is a document requirement, and for a company in Haldia it belongs in the joining kit.
Employees earning gross wages up to 21,000 rupees a month, and up to 25,000 rupees where the employee has a disability. The scheme applies to factories and establishments with ten or more people, though for non factory establishments the threshold comes from a state notification and is not the same everywhere.
The employee contributes 0.75 percent of gross wages and the employer 3.25 percent, and contributions are due by the fifteenth of the following month. Once an establishment is covered it remains covered even if headcount later drops.
Monthly: provident fund and employee state insurance contributions by the fifteenth, and tax deducted at source deposited by the seventh. Quarterly: the salary return. Annually: Form 16 by 15 June, the bonus payment and register, and the professional tax and labour welfare fund filings that the state requires.
That is most of it for a small employer in West Bengal. The rest is document hygiene: appointment letters issued, confirmations issued on time, exits settled within the statutory window.
Haldia comes under Purba Medinipur. That is the unit the labour department works in, so it decides which office you deal with.
Commissioner of Profession Tax, Directorate of Commercial Taxes, Finance Department, Government of West Bengal. Profession tax in West Bengal is a state levy under the West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act.
Not for private sector employers. Central government employees have a paternity leave entitlement under service rules, and many private companies offer it as policy, but there is no general statutory obligation.
Agencies, warehouses and ancillary units run shifts every day, and the compliance side has to keep up.
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