Haldia • Port & Logistics

HR software for port-linked & logistics SMEs in Haldia

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HR for a Haldia shift operation

Offers, attendance, payroll-ready outputs and letters, kept clean and compliant without a dedicated HR desk.

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Offer letter generator

Branded offer letters, Indian clauses, and a salary table anyone can follow. 50 free credits on signup.

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Paperwork, ready to issue

Experience, separation, increment, probation confirmation and appointment letters, all in one house wording.

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Attendance & leave

Check-ins, shifts and leave approvals in one place, with clean exports for payroll.

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Payroll-ready outputs

Professional tax, PF and ESI kept tidy on sensible defaults, with summaries to download.

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Employee database

Each employee's documents and service history stored securely, joining right through to separation.

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Running within a day

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Which statutory offices does an employer in Haldia deal with?

What changes at the Purba Medinipur district boundary and what does not, for an employer in Haldia.

District
Purba Medinipur source
Local body
Haldia Municipality, Building, City Center, Debhog, Kshudiram Nagar, Haldia, West Bengal source
Professional tax
Levied statewide under the West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act. statuteFile at www.wbcomtax.gov.in.
Shops and Establishments
The West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963 (West Bengal Act XIII of 1963). ActApplies at: No employee-number threshold. Section 1(4): the Act applies to the areas. Time limit: Section 16(1): an existing shop or establishment must apply for registration.Authority: The 'registering authority' under section 2(12) of the West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act. source
Labour welfare fund
Yes - the West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974, administered by the West Bengal Labour Welfare Board. source
Worth knowing here
Haldia is one of the four sub-divisions of Purba Medinipur district; the district has 4 sub-divisions, 5 municipalities (Contai, Egra, Haldia, Panskura, Tamluk) and 25 blocks source
Unchanged by district
Provident fund and employee state insurance contributions, gratuity, statutory bonus and salary tax deduction are national law. Haldia changes none of them.

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.

Which Haldia industries are you hiring for?

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.

Named large employersHaldiaIndian Oil Corporation Refinery, Haldia Petrochemicals, Exide Industries

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.

Embroidery and garments clusterBasulia312 functional units

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.

Cashew nut processing clusterdistrict wide250 functional units

Rs 1.37 crore turnover and about 1,000 workers.

Haldia Industrial EstateHaldia52 plots, all allotted

The Haldia Growth Centre nearby covers 119.57 acres across 10 plots, none allotted as of the profile's data.

Useful offices for an employer in Haldia

District Industries Centre, Purba Medinipur

MSME and Udyam registration for the district.

Labour Department, Government of West Bengal

Shops and establishment registration and labour compliance.

WB Labour Dept
Directorate of Commercial Taxes, West Bengal

GST and commercial tax registration for employers.

WB Commercial Taxes
Silpasathi, Government of West Bengal

The state's single window portal for industry licensing and clearances.

Silpasathi

Confirm 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.

How does maternity leave affect payroll and records?

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.

paternity leave in India

What else does the Maternity Benefit Act require?

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.

the statutory compliance checklist

Which employees are covered by employee state insurance?

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.

employee state insurance rates and ceiling

What compliance calendar does a twenty person company need?

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.

statutory compliance for Indian employers

Frequently asked questions

Where does Haldia sit administratively?

Haldia comes under Purba Medinipur. That is the unit the labour department works in, so it decides which office you deal with.

Who collects professional tax from a Haldia employer?

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.

Is paternity leave mandatory in India?

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.

Built around Purba Medinipur's ancillary units

Agencies, warehouses and ancillary units run shifts every day, and the compliance side has to keep up.

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India-first compliance

Indian context for PF, ESI and professional tax. Templates here reflect normal SME practice.

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Pay-per-use friendly

Predictable cost across ten to two hundred employees. There is a free tier, a pay as you go option, and plans.

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Mobile-friendly

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Simple to operate

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EPFO and ESIC Offices for Haldia

Offrd handles the calculation and documents. These are the government offices for registration, inspections, and escalations.

EPFO Office
RO, Jalpaiguri — Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan, SJDA Building, Dinbazar, Jalpaiguri, 735101
ESIC Office
No city or district office on record. Nearest State Regional Office: ESI Corporation, Panchdeep Bhawan, 51, Grant Lane, Kolkata-700012, West Bengal