Pune, Maharashtra
HRMS software in Pune
Kuzhu is HR and payroll software for Pune companies: IT services and product teams at Hinjawadi, Kharadi and Magarpatta, auto and engineering plants at Chakan, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Talegaon, and the colleges, universities and coaching institutes across the city. Hybrid attendance, three-shift rosters, appraisal cycles and payroll with PF, ESI and TDS run on one record, with Maharashtra’s slabbed professional tax and the June and December labour welfare fund applied automatically.
₹2,500
the most professional tax in a year in Maharashtra
Udaipur
where the product is built and supported
2–4 weeks
typical implementation, over video
Today
What month end looks like in Pune
Hybrid at Hinjawadi, three shifts at Chakan
An engineering company with a design centre at Kharadi on a hybrid week and a plant at Chakan on rotating shifts runs two attendance rules, two leave policies and a payroll that somebody merges by hand on the last working day of the month.
Appraisals that end in arrears
IT teams set goals in April, calibrate in March and issue increment letters in May; payroll finds out a fortnight later and pays arrears, and the professional tax band changes for a few people without anyone noticing until the return.
Faculty on contract, staff on scale
Colleges pay permanent faculty on a pay scale, visiting faculty by the lecture and non-teaching staff on a separate calendar; contract renewals fall at term end and are noticed only when someone’s salary stops arriving.
With Kuzhu
How the modules answer it
Every module reads the same employee record, so nothing below is an integration; it is one system seen from four sides.
Hybrid rules per person, shifts per plant
Office, hybrid and remote policies assigned per employee or team with web and GPS-tagged mobile punch, and biometric devices at the Chakan gate judged against rotating shifts, all shown together on one muster the same day.
Attendance module
Cycles that close into payroll
Goals, self and manager reviews, calibration across teams and increment recommendations that flow into salary revision, letters and arrears in one step, with the professional tax band rechecked automatically on the new salary.
Performance Management module
Maharashtra payroll for IT, plant and campus
Salary-band professional tax with the exemption for women and the February adjustment, the labour welfare fund twice a year, PF with the EPS split, ESI within ₹21,000, overtime for the plant and separate pay calendars for teaching and non-teaching staff.
Payroll module
Campus and lateral hiring on one pipeline
Requisitions, candidate stages, interview scheduling and offers for lateral hires and campus batches alike, with the accepted offer creating the employee record so joining, PF nomination and the first payslip start from the same data.
Recruitment (ATS) moduleCompliance in Maharashtra
What is different about payroll in Maharashtra
PF, ESI and TDS are the same everywhere in India. These are the parts that follow the state, configured per branch so a company with people in two states runs both correctly.
Professional tax
Maharashtra professional tax is deducted by monthly salary band, with an exemption for women below a threshold and a higher amount in one month so the year totals a fixed sum; the employer holds a registration certificate for employee deductions and an enrolment certificate for itself. Figures are in the table on this page.
Labour welfare fund
The Maharashtra Labour Welfare Fund contribution is deducted in June and December with the employer adding three times the employee’s share, and deposited with the Maharashtra Labour Welfare Board by the following month; it covers employees of establishments and factories under the Act.
Shops & Establishments
IT companies and offices with ten or more workers register online under the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 2017, and smaller ones file an intimation; plants at Chakan and Pimpri-Chinchwad fall under the Factories Act, and colleges follow their university and state education rules for service conditions.
Holidays
The Maharashtra government list with Maharashtra Day, Gudi Padwa and Ganesh Chaturthi is the default; colleges load their academic calendar with vacations instead, and plants that run on public holidays set their own list per branch with compensatory offs.
Professional tax in Maharashtra
Deducted from salary every month by slab. Women are exempt up to ₹25,000. The top slab is ₹300 in February so the year totals ₹2,500.
| Gross salary | Professional tax |
|---|---|
| Up to ₹7,500 a month | Nil |
| ₹7,501 to ₹10,000 a month | ₹175 |
| Above ₹10,000 a month | ₹200 |
Asked first
Questions Pune companies ask on the first call
What professional tax applies to employees in Pune?
Maharashtra’s: deducted by monthly salary band, with women below a threshold exempt and a higher amount in February so the year totals a fixed sum. The slab table on this page shows the figures. Kuzhu applies it per employee, rechecks the band on every salary revision and produces the return summary at the frequency your liability requires.
Is implementation for Pune done on-site or remotely?
Remotely. Kuzhu is built in Udaipur, and Pune implementations run over video in two to four weeks: import, configuration, training and one parallel payroll reconciled to the rupee before you switch. There is no Pune office, and no need for one; after go-live the same team supports you by phone, WhatsApp and email.
Can teaching and non-teaching staff have different rules?
Yes. Employment types carry their own leave policies, pay components and pay calendars, so faculty on a pay scale, visiting faculty paid per lecture and administrative staff on a monthly salary sit on one record with different rules. Contract faculty carry an end date with renewal reminders before the term ends.
Our engineers move between Pune and Bengaluru projects. Does PT follow?
Yes. Professional tax is applied by work location, so an engineer transferred to Bengaluru moves to the Karnataka slab from the effective date and back to Maharashtra when they return, with the transfer on the record. Holiday calendars and the labour welfare fund follow the branch in the same way.
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Tell us how HR runs today and roughly how many people you have. We show you the same thing your team would use on Monday, and we say so if it does not fit.
- No card, no contract, nothing installed
- A parallel payroll reconciled before you switch
- Support in Hindi and English, on the phone
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