Notification under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
S.O. 2514(E). Notification regarding Appellate Authority for registration under the OSH and WC Code 2020
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MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 13th May, 2026
S.O. 2514(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (37 of 2020) and in supersession of the notification of Government of India in the Ministry of Labour and Employment No S.O. 4202(E) dated 28th December 2016, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such supersession mentioned in the column (2) of the table below to be the appellate authorities for the purposes of the code within the local limits of their respective jurisdiction in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said table in relation to all establishments for which the Central Government is the appropriate Government under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the said code, namely :—
TABLE
Serial number Officers Jurisdiction
(1) (2) (3)
1. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners The whole of India (Central) in the Head Quarters, Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), New Delhi
2. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Gujarat and the Union territories Ahmedabad region of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
3. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Rajasthan. Ajmer region
4. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The districts of Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Asansol region Bardhaman, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia in the State of West Bengal.
5. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Karnataka. Bangaluru region
6. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Odisha. Bhubaneshwar region
7. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Maharashtra except the districts Mumbai region of Nagpur, Bhandara, Akola, Beed, Amaravati, Wardha, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Nanded, Gaddchiroli, Parbhanai, Latur, Yeotmal, Osmanabad, Hingoli, Gondia and Washim and the State of Goa.
8. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of West Bengal except the districts Kolkata region of Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Bardhaman, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia, the State of Sikkim and the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
9. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Kerala and Union territory of Cochin region Lakshadweep and Mahe in the Union territory of Puducherry.
10. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh region Haryana and Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh.
11. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Jharkhand- Dhanbad, Bokaro, Dhanbad region Hazaribagh, Koderma, Ranchi, Lohardaga, Gumla, Simdega, Chatra, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Giridih, Deogarh, Saraikela (Kharsawan), Jamtara, Khunti and Ramgarh.
12. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The States of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Guwahati region Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
13. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Hyderabad region and the area of Yanam in the Union territory of Puducherry.
14. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur region
15. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Uttar Pradesh except the districts Kanpur region of Saharanpur, Bijnor, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Badaun, Moradabad, JyotibaPhule Nagar (Amroha), Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Rampur, Bhagpat, Hapur, Shamli, Gautam Budh Nagar.
16. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Uttarakhand and districts of Dehradun region Saharanpur, Bijnor, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Jyotiba Phule Nagar (Amroha), Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Rampur, Bhagpat, Hapur, Shamli and GautamBudh Nagar.
17. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Tamil Nadu and the Union Chennai region territory of Puducherry except Yanam and Mahe.
18. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The districts of Nagpur, Bhandara, Akola, Nagpur region Amaravati, Wardha, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Beed, Nanded, Gaddchiroli, Parbhani, Latur, Yeotmal, Osmanabad, Gondia, Washim and Hingoli in the State of Maharashtra.
19. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), National Capital Territory of Delhi. Delhi region
20. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), The State of Bihar and the civil districts of Patna region Garhwa, Latehar, Sahibganj, Pakur, Dumka, Palamu and Godda in the State of Jharkhand.
21. All Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) The State of Chhattisgarh. Raipur region
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ALOK CHANDRA, Senior Labour And Employment Advisor