HeadcountWage (one employee)

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Applies to this profile · 10 or more employeesCovers employees earning up to ₹21,000 a month (ceiling continued under the Code's transitional provisions; will be updated when a new ceiling is notified).

ESIC

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Applies from: 10 employees, in notified areasCode on Social Security, 2020
Wage ceiling: ₹21,000 a monthESI regulations
Contributions: Employee 0.75%, employer 3.25% of wagesESI regulations
Meghalaya's districts notified from 1 April 2026: West Khasi Hills, South West Khasi Hills, Eastern West Khasi Hills, East Jaintia HillsMade by the Central Government under the third proviso to the First Schedule of the Code on Social Security, 2020 — not under the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 — appointing 1 April 2026 as the date from and on which contributions are payable under section 29 by employers and employees of establishments in the entire areas of these districts, and benefits under Chapter IV are provided to their employees. File F. No. S-38013/03/2025-SS-I.S.O. 1649(E), Gazette of India Extraordinary No. 1584, Part II Section 3(ii), 30 March 2026
Meghalaya's other districts: Not yet addedThis order notifies these four districts. Which other Meghalaya districts were already notified, and when, has not been researched here.

The documents behind this page · 1 document · latest 30 March 2026

S.O. 1649(E) — Meghalaya ESI: S.O. 1649(E) of 30 March 2026 notifying four areas from 1 April 2026 under the Code on Social Security, 2020 · 30 Mar 2026

Updates

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Central updates

30 Sep 2026
ESI's ₹21,000 has no Code notification behind it
Section 2(89) of the Code has the wage ceiling notified for Chapter III and Chapter IV. Only Chapter III has been done — ₹25,000 by S.O. 5109(E), expressly “for the purposes of Chapter III”. No Chapter IV notification was found, and the Social Security (Central) Rules, 2026 contain no wage ceiling at all, so ₹21,000 rests on s.164(2)(b)'s saving of the rules under the repealed ESI Act, which runs one year from 21 November 2025. The 10-employee line and the 0.75%/3.25% rates are unaffected: the first is s.1(4) with the First Schedule, the second is rule 19 of those 2026 Rules.
21 Nov 2025
Code on Social Security commenced; the EPF and ESI Acts are repealed
S.O. 5319(E) brought most of the Code into force on 21 November 2025, including Chapter III (provident fund) and Chapter IV (state insurance). Its table listed section 164 — the repeal — item by item, and S.O. 5936(E) of 19 December 2025 corrected that to the whole of section 164, except the parts already commenced by S.O. 2060(E) of 3 May 2023. So all nine enactments in s.164(1) are repealed, the EPF and MP Act 1952 and the ESI Act 1948 among them. Their schemes and rules survive only through s.164(2)(b), which holds them in force so far as not inconsistent with the Code for one year from commencement — to 21 November 2026.

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