FundRaksha HR gives Ahmedabad employers GPS check-in on employees' own phones (only inside the office radius, one phone per employee), leave, shift rosters and a payroll that computes PF, ESI, PT and TDS, with payslip PDFs and PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files. Gujarat profession tax: levied on salaries and collected by the municipal corporation inside city limits. Plans cost ₹49, ₹79 or ₹99 per employee per month plus GST, with a 30-day free trial.
Ahmedabad's workforce and its HR problems
Textiles and garments, chemicals and dyes, pharmaceuticals, engineering goods and real estate are the city's main employers. Chemical and pharma units are shift-based with strict attendance needs; builders and contractors have site supervisors who rarely visit the head office.
In Ahmedabad profession tax is administered by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, and Gujarat also has a labour welfare fund paid to the Gujarat Labour Welfare Board.
- Two-shift chemical units with handwritten shift registers
- Site supervisors in different parts of the city
- PF and ESI filings prepared by an outside consultant from Excel
- LWF and PT dates tracked on a wall calendar
Gujarat payroll rules for a Ahmedabad employer
Gujarat levies profession tax on salaries, and inside a municipal corporation's limits the corporation collects it from employers. Surat Municipal Corporation, for example, takes employer registration and enrolment online on its own website, and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation publishes the profession tax forms and rules on ahmedabadcity.gov.in. Take the current salary slab from your corporation before the first payroll run; we have not quoted figures we could not confirm there.
Labour welfare fund. Gujarat has a labour welfare fund under the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953, run by the Gujarat Labour Welfare Board. Registration and payment are online at glwbcrm.gujarat.gov.in. It is not among FundRaksha HR's listed files, so diarise it.
Shops and establishments. Shops and offices are covered by the Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019. Separately, the Labour Department asks establishments with ten or more workers to register on its Shram Setu portal (shramsetu.gujarat.gov.in) under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. The four Labour Codes have been in force since 21 November 2025; state Shops and Establishments Acts continue alongside them.
ESI covers employees earning up to ₹21,000 a month (employee 0.75%, employer 3.25%); PF is 12% from each side. Check cases with the PF and ESI calculators.
How FundRaksha HR handles it in Ahmedabad
- Shift roster and rules on Pro, with late marks
- GPS check-in at each site or office, each with its own radius
- PF ECR, ESI and PT files to hand to your consultant, plus Tally XML
- Every admin action recorded with who did it and when
Admins work from the mobile app or the web console, and PAN, Aadhaar and bank numbers are encrypted and masked.
Worked example: a Vatva dye unit with 61 staff
A dye manufacturer has 55 workers on two shifts and 6 office staff. Most workers earn ₹13,000 to ₹19,000, so ESI covers them. The plant and the Ashram Road office are two GPS locations; the roster decides which shift each worker is on.
On Pro at ₹79 per employee (₹4,819 a month plus GST), the month closes with PF ECR, ESI and PT files. PT follows Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's slab, and the Gujarat LWF is paid separately through glwbcrm.gujarat.gov.in.
Getting started: a one-week checklist
- Import employees from Excel and invite them with your company code.
- Add each Ahmedabad office, plant or site with its GPS radius.
- Set attendance rules, holidays, week-offs and shifts.
- Enter salary structures and confirm the Gujarat PT treatment on a test month.
- Run payroll, check payslips, then download the PF ECR, ESI, bank and Tally files.
See the salary slip format, FundRaksha in Ahmedabad and the plans.
Sources
- hr.fundraksha.com (features, checked 21 October 2026)
- hr.fundraksha.com/pricing (plans and 30-day free trial, checked 21 October 2026)
- www.esic.gov.in/coverage (wage limit ₹21,000 a month)
- www.suratmunicipal.gov.in/OnlineServices/ProfessionalTaxRC/Enroll (SMC profession tax regi
- ahmedabadcity.gov.in/Uploads/FormsFonts/ProfessionalTax/prof_tax_rule_3.pdf (AMC professio
- glwb.gujarat.gov.in (Gujarat Labour Welfare Board, Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953)
- col.gujarat.gov.in (Shram Setu registration, ten or more workers)
- src/seo/data/cities.js (city industries)
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21. Information for Indian businesses; not legal advice.