Notification under section 138 of the CoSS, 2020

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L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-16052026-272628 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 2355] | NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026/VAISAKHA 22, 1948 3412 GI/2026 (1) THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC. 3(ii)] 2 3 MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 12th May, 2026 S.O. 2447(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 138 of the Code on Social Security, 2020 (36 of 2020) read with sub-rule (1) of rule 54 of the Social Security(Central) Rules, 2026, the Central Government hereby appoints the officers mentioned in column (2) of the Table below to be the Officers for the purposes of compounding offences relating to Chapter V and Chapter VI of the said Code for the area of jurisdiction specified against them in column (3) of the said Table in relation to all establishments for which the Central Government is the appropriate Government under clause (a) of sub-section (3) of section 2 of the said Code, namely:- [F. No. R-13011/07/2026-SS-II] ASHUTOSH A. T. PEDNEKAR, Jt. Secy. 4 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC. 3(ii)] TABLE Sl. No. | Officers | Jurisdiction (1) | (2) | (3) 1. | Additional Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) and All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners(Central) in the Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), New Delhi | The whole of India. 2. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Ahmedabad Region | The State of Gujarat and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. 3. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Ajmer Region | The State of Rajasthan. 4. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Asansol Region | The civil districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia in the State of West Bengal, and any new district formed out of above districts. 5. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Bengaluru Region | The State of Karnataka. 6. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Bhubaneshwar Region | The State of Odisha. 7. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Chandigarh Region | The States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh. 8. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Chennai Region | The State of Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry (except Yanam and Mahe districts). 9. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Cochin Region | The State of Kerala and Union Territory of Lakshadweep and Mahe district in the Union Territory of Puducherry. 10. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Dehradun Region | The State of Uttarakhand and civil districts of Saharanpur, Bijnor, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Jyotiba Phule Nagar (Amroha), Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Rampur, Baghpat, Hapur, Shamli and Gautam Budh Nagar in the State of Uttar Pradesh and any new district formed out of above districts. 11. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Dhanbad Region | The following districts of the State of Jharkhand- Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Koderma, Ranchi, Lohardaga, Gumla, Simdega, Chatra, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Giridih, Deogarh, Saraikela (Kharsawan) and Jamtara, Khunti and Ramgarh, and any new district formed out of above districts. 12. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Guwahati Region | The States of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. [PART II-SEC. 3(ii)] 5 13. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Hyderabad Region | The States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the area of Yanam district in the Union Territory of Puducherry. 14. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Jabalpur Region | The State of Madhya Pradesh. 15. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Kanpur Region | The State of Uttar Pradesh [except the civil districts of Saharanpur, Bijnor, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Badaun, Moradabad, Jyotiba Phule Nagar (Amroha), Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Rampur, Bhagpat, Hapur, Shamli and Gautam Budh Nagar, and any new district formed out of above districts]. 16. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Kolkata Region | The State of West Bengal (except the civil districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia in the State of West Bengal, and any new district formed out of above district), the State of Sikkim and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 17. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Mumbai Region | The State of Maharashtra (except the civil districts of Nagpur, Bhandara, Akola, Beed, Amaravati, Wardha, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Nanded, Gaddchiroli, Parbhani, Latur, Yeotmal, Osmanabad, Hingoli, Gondia and Washim, and any new district formed out of above districts) and the State of Goa. 18. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Nagpur Region | The civil districts of Nagpur, Bhandara, Akola, Amaravati, Wardha Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Beed, Nanded, Gaddchiroli, Parbhani, Latur, Yeotmal, Osmanabad, Gondia, Washim and Hingoli in the State of Maharashtra, and any new district formed out of above districts. 19. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Delhi Region | National Capital Territory of Delhi. 20. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Patna Region | The State of Bihar and the civil districts of Garhwa, Latehar, Sahibganj, Pakur, Dumka, Palamu and Godda in the State of Jharkhand, and any new district formed out of above districts. 21. | All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners (Central) in Raipur Region | The State of Chhattisgarh. 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