ESI limit exemption limit ₹ 21000/- applicability

[venkat eswaran]

Dear All,

One news channel says ESI exemption limit of ₹ 21000/- applicable from 1.1.2017 but i have not found this notificaiton in ESI site and any other news.

Whether this is true it is applicable from 1.1.2017?

Thanks in advance

Venkateswaran

[DR.MARIAPPAN GOVINDARAJAN]

Notification has already been issued.

AI Summary

ESI exemption limit change: notification issued confirming applicability from the start of the year, effective immediately. An enquiry asked whether the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) exemption limit of Rs. 21,000 became applicable from 1 January 2017; the only substantive reply states that a notification has been issued, indicating formal promulgation of the revised exemption limit, without reproducing the notification text or detailing transitional or operational provisions.