Time limit for payment of ESI Contribution has been extended

Notification

Keeping in view the pandemic in the form of ”Corona Virus” (COVID-19) in the country, the Director-General has relaxed the provisions as entered in regulations 26 & 31 of  ”The Employees’ State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950”. The proviso of regulation 31 shall be read as 45 days instead of 15 days for the contribution payable for the month of February & March 2020 only. 

The ESI contribution for the month of February 2020 & March 2020 can be filed and paid up to 15th April 2020 & 15th May 2020 instead of 15th March 2020 & 15th April 2020 respectively.

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ESIC vide notification no p-11/14/Misc/1/2019-Rev has extended the ESI contribution for the month of February 2020 and March 2020 to 15th April 2020 and 15th May 2020 respectively on account of a pandemic in the form of coronavirus.

Therefore time limit for payment of contribution has been extended to forty-five days instead of fifteen days for the month of February and March 2020 only.