Kolkata employers with ten or more workers at a workplace must constitute an Internal Committee, adopt a POSH policy, run awareness programmes and prepare an annual report each calendar year. The obligation applies equally to private limited companies, LLPs, partnership firms, proprietorships, trusts and NGOs — and the most common local error is assuming that a family-run firm or a professional practice is somehow outside it.
Sector V, Salt Lake and the New Town–Rajarhat belt — where a large share of the city's IT and back-office employers sit — are administered outside Kolkata district. An organisation with a central Kolkata office and a Sector V development centre may therefore be reporting to two different District Officers.
Confirm which district each of your West Bengal premises falls in, and the current District Officer, submission route and deadline for each, before filing. The POSH Act prescribes no national deadline; district practice commonly follows 31 January for the preceding calendar year.
Kolkata's employer base is weighted towards trading houses, family businesses, professional practices, education and healthcare. In these organisations POSH compliance tends to fail in one of three ways:
For employers genuinely below ten workers, there is still work to do: a policy, the display, and telling employees that complaints go to the Local Committee constituted by the District Officer.
A policy and notice board display in Bengali alongside English is what makes the mechanism usable for support and operations staff. It also strengthens the employer's position that the policy was genuinely disseminated.
Yes. The Act applies to the employer and the workplace, not to a particular entity type.
No, not below ten workers — but count inclusively first, including interns and contract staff. If you remain below ten, adopt a policy, display the required notice, and route complaints to the Local Committee of the district.
Confirm the district for that address before filing — several of Kolkata's principal business locations are administered outside Kolkata district.
Yes, and a bilingual policy and display is recommended where staff read Bengali.
Yes. A nil annual report is still prepared and submitted, recording the committee's constitution and the awareness activity carried out.
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Reviewed by the Corporate Compliance team (CA, CS and Legal), CorporateWalla · Position stated as on 28 August 2026 · · Sources: Ministry of Women & Child Development, India Code — POSH Act, 2013, SHe-Box portal
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