A closed-loop canteen card that meets the labour-code canteen requirement for units with 100+ workers. Loads by the plant, spends at the canteen counter and the gate kirana. Contract and daily-wage staff included.
Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, establishments with 100 or more workers are required to provide a canteen. Running it on cash means leakage, queues, reconciliation headaches and no record of who ate what. A canteen card replaces cash with a tap, gives every worker a fixed daily or monthly allowance, and gives the plant a live report.
YPayX canteen cards are live with sugar mills in Bulandshahr, Anoopshahr, Bijnor and Dhampur in western Uttar Pradesh. The same platform serves ₹12 lakh+ white-collar employees with the tax-free meal card — one vendor for the whole company.
Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, establishments with 100 or more workers must provide a canteen. State rules may add conditions; check your state's notification.
No. The card is a prepaid instrument issued with an RBI-licensed PPI partner; workers complete simple KYC on the app.
Yes. Contract staff can be onboarded through the contractor; daily-wage workers get a card with minimum KYC.
Meals provided by the employer are nil-valued up to ₹200 per meal under Rule 15 of the Income Tax Rules 2026. Most canteen workers are below the taxable limit anyway; the benefit here is compliance and convenience.
That is the plant's choice: closed loop (canteen only) or open RuPay at food merchants near the gate.
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