ESIC Registration Online Process

The registration for employers under the ESI scheme is completely online. In other words, there is no need for the employers to submit any document physically either before or after the ESIC registration. Here’s a step by step guide to the ESIC registration online:

• Login to ESIC Portal

To register as an employer under the ESI act, simply visit the esic.in and on the home page select ‘Click Here to Login’.

A notification saying ‘If you have already installed the certificates, click here to continue’ would appear. Just press ‘click here’ to go to the ‘User Login’ page.

Once you are on the ‘User Login’ page, click on ‘Sign Up’ option provided towards the bottom of the Captcha Field’. On doing so, the following ‘Sign Up Page’ would appear on your screen.

• Fill the Details on the Sign Up Page

Once you are on the ‘Sign Up’ Page, enter details in the given fields such as:

• Company Name – mention your company name here
• Principal Employer Name – as per section 2(17) of the ESI act, a principal employer means :
  • In case of factory – owner, occupier, managing agent of owner or occupier, legal representative of a deceased owner or occupier, manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948
  • In case of establishments belonging to or under the control of the government of India – specified authority, head of the department (in the absence of the specified authority)
  • In case of other establishments – person responsible for control and supervision of the establishment
  • In case of shop – owner or management of the owner, proprietor, partners, directors
• State – where your factory/establishment is located
• Regions
• Email Id (Username)
• Phone No

After filling the above details, check the the box next to notification ‘Please confirm your establishment/factory undereXclusive Labour Contract/Man Power Suppliers, Security Agencies, Contractors Labour categories. If not please register through Common Registration Link for ESIC/EPFO.’ After doing so, click on the ‘Submit’ button.

• Receive Username and Password Details

After submitting the sign up details, you will receive an email from the ESIC insurance team. This email would contain your username and password details that you would use for registering yourself as an employer and your employees under the ESI scheme.

• Enter Login Details on the ESIC portal

After receiving the login credentials, access the esic portal again and enter your login details at the ‘User Login Page’. So, you need to enter your username, password as received in the email and enter Captcha code provided next to the Captcha code field. After entering the details, press ‘Login’.

• Select New Employer Registration and Select Unit Type

After logging in to your ESIC account, you will see a page displaying the ‘New Employer Registration’ Link. Click on the ‘New Employer Registration Link’ to proceed further.

On doing so, the ‘New Employer Registration’ page will be displayed on the screen. Now, select the type of unit (factory, shop establishment etc) from the drop down list and click ‘Submit’.

• Fill Details in Employer Registration – Form 01

On submitting the type of unit, Employer Registration – Form 01 would appear on your screen. As you would see, this form is divided into multiple parts, as is evident through the tabs given towards the top right of the Form – 01. These include:

(I) Unit details

This is the first section of the employer registration form – 01 that gets displayed after submitting the type of unit. In this section, you need to provide the details in respect of the unit you seek to register. These include:

• Name of the unit (factory/establishment)
• Complete postal address of the factory/establishment including state, district, phone number, mobile number, fax number, email
• Police station
• Name of town/revenue village, taluk/tehsil, revenue demarcation/hubast number, municipality
• Whether the building/premises of factory/establishment is owned or hired. Choose the relevant option from the dropdown.
• If hired or there is a change in the name of the unit/ownership, you need to mention the same . Further, you need to provide the ESI code number if you were covered earlier, the date from which the earlier factory/establishment closed down and upload the copy of agreement or relevant deed containing terms and conditions under which property acquired/taken on lease

Once this is done, you can click on ‘Next’ to proceed further. You can also ‘save’ the data in case you want to complete the registration process later, reset in case you want to re-enter the details or cancel if you want to discontinue.

(II) Employer Details

This section includes details related to the employer. Thus, you need to provide the following information in this section:

• Details of all the operational bank accounts such as account no, bank name, branch name MICR code of the bank/branch, IFSC code of the bank/branch
• Income tax PAN No/OIR no., income tax ward/circle/area
• Is your factory/establishment a multinational – yes/no, exact nature of work/business carried on, category, whether the activity being carried out in your factory/establishment is considered hazardous process
• Date of commencement of factory/establishment
• Whether registered under any of the acts such as factories act, shops and establishment act, other or none, Licence no, date and licensing authority, Other details that are applicable to you, Maximum number of employees that can be employed per day as per the licence

On filling the above details, click on ‘Next’ to proceed to the next section.

(III) Factory/Establishment Details

This section contains details with regards to the factory/establishment you seek to register. These include:

• Date since power is used for manufacturing process as per section 2(k) of the factory act
• Whether License is issued under section 2(m)(i) or 2(m)(ii) of the factories act 1948
• Power connection details such as connection number, sanctioned power load and issuing authority
• Constitution of ownership
• Other details such as father’s name, age, permanent residential address of the manager declared under the factories act etc

On filling the above details, click on ‘Next’ to proceed to the next section.

(IV) Employee Details

This section deals with employee details such as:

• work/business carried out through contractor/immediate employer
• Nature of business
• EPF code number
• Issuing authority
• No. of employees employed for wages directly and through immediate employers on the date of application
• First date since when10 or 20 or more coverable employees under ESI act were employed for wages
• Total wages paid in the preceding month
• Employee declaration form
• Branch office and inspection division

After filling the above details, click on the check box that asks for your declaration for the correctness of the information provided and click ‘Submit’.

• Pay Initial Contribution

After submitting all the details in the ‘Employee Details’ section, you will be directed to ‘Payment of Advance Contribution Page’. Here, by clicking on the ‘Pay Initial Contribution Link’ you will be directed to the ‘Advance Contribution Payment’ page where you are required to fill the ‘Amount to be Paid’ field and select the payment mode (online or offline) to pay advance contribution for 6 months`. After filling these details click on the ‘Submit’ button. Note down your Challan Number and press ‘Continue’ to make payment.

• Receiving Registration Letter C -11

On making the payment, you as an employer would receive a system generated registration letter on your registered email id once the challan gets realized from the bank. It must be noted that C – 11 is a computer generated letter nad does not need any signatures. In other words, it is used as a valid proof of registration of your unit under the ESI Act.