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Kolkata sits in Kolkata district. Part of what follows is decided locally and is not the same in the next district, and the rest runs on central law and does not move at all.
Read this as a starting point, not as the last word. Addresses and rates here were right when they were checked and may not be today. Confirm the office and its address with the department itself, and take a professional view from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser before relying on any of it. This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with any office named here and does not act for them. These details were verified on 12 September 2026. Send anything that looks wrong to service@offrd.co.
Kolkata's own MSME-DI profile documents a hosiery cluster large enough to rank among the biggest we found anywhere in this project, and it separately tracks the city's software sector growth with an actual employment figure, not just a reputation.
Rs 3,984 crore turnover and 43,246 workers, one of the largest documented clusters found in this entire project by turnover.
Up from 20,000 in 2005-06, the clearest government figure found anywhere backing the city's IT sector growth, though it predates the current startup ecosystem conversation.
Rs 139 crore turnover and 4,860 workers.
Alongside 14 designated industrial zones including Kasba's three phases and the Kolkata Leather Complex SEZ on 1,000 acres.
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 and software sector figures through 2010-11, both now over a decade old. No newer official recount for these clusters was found, so treat the software employment figure as historical context rather than the sector's current size. 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 Spot something out of date?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.
Where it applies, overtime is paid at twice the ordinary rate of wages, and the daily and weekly hour caps come from the state Shops and Establishments Act or the Factories Act depending on the establishment. Managerial and supervisory roles are usually outside the overtime provisions, and where the line falls is set by the applicable Act rather than by the job title.
The record matters as much as the rate. Overtime claimed without an hours record is hard to defend either way.
Professional tax, where the state levies it, capped at 2,500 rupees a year by Article 276 of the Constitution. The labour welfare fund contribution, where the state runs one. Both are small, both are state specific, and both are easy to miss when a company opens its first office outside its home state.
Neither is difficult once it is on the calendar. The failure mode is not complexity, it is forgetting that the rule changed at the border.
The shortfall is payable, and the consequences under the wage law follow. The more common practical cost for a small employer in West Bengal is the recalculation: provident fund, employee state insurance and bonus all have to be reworked for the affected period, and the corrections have to be filed.
Checking the notification once every six months is a short task that prevents a long one.
Take a salary where basic pay is a third of the total and the rest is allowances. Under the new definition, the allowances above half of total remuneration get added back into wages. Provident fund, gratuity and leave encashment then sit on a higher base than the payslip components suggest.
For a company in West Bengal the useful step is to look at the structure once, at company level, rather than to discover the effect employee by employee at settlement time.
Kolkata sits in Kolkata. Labour offices are appointed district by district, so that is the line that decides who inspects you.
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.
Compensatory off is a policy arrangement for work on a weekly off or holiday. Where the statutory overtime provisions apply to the employee, a compensatory off does not by itself discharge the obligation to pay at the statutory rate.
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