ESI relaxes the timeline for remitting the contribution for the month of April

Labour Compliance: ESI contribution period relaxed for April’19

The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation vide Circular No. P-11/12/Misc./1/2019 (M) – Rev.II dated 14-05-2019, has relaxed the timeline for paying the April’19 ESI contribution, from 15 days to 45 days from the last date of the calendar month (Eg. April’19 contribution can be paid by 14th June’19) . The relaxation shall be restricted to the month of April’19 exclusively.

The decision is a result of the disastrous cyclone ‘Fani’ which had struck Orissa a few days back and shall be implemented in the following areas:

•    Puri
•    Khurda
•    Cuttack
•    Jgatsinghpur
•    Kendrapara
•    Nayagarh
•    Jajpur
•    Bhadrak
•    Balasopre
•    Mayurbhanja
•    Keonjhar
•    Ganjam
•    Angul
•    Dhekanal