Construction ERP software in Raipur
Yes — LekhaPro's Construction pack runs a Raipur contractor's projects end to end: priced BOQs with rate analysis, critical-path schedules, and measurement books feeding RA bills whose waterfall — retention, advance recovery, LD, 194C TDS, GST — reconciles to the paise. The 1% labour cess on Raipur sites goes to Chhattisgarh Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (cglabour.nic.in), a cost line the project accounts carry. Cloud edition, any browser.
What Chhattisgarh sets for a Raipur contractor
| Item | Chhattisgarh | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GST state code | 22 — first two digits of every GSTIN here | Statutory |
| Labour cess (BOCW) board | Chhattisgarh Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (cglabour.nic.in) | CG Labour Dept (cglabour.nic.in) board document · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Intra-state e-way bill | ₹50,000 (only 15 notified goods, district-to-district; other goods exempt) | Ntf. F-10-31/2018/CT/V(46) · CG Gazette 23-06-2018 · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Professional tax | Levied — Chhattisgarh Vritti Kar Adhiniyam, 1995 (Professional Tax Act) | CG Professional Tax Act 1995 · comtax.cg.nic.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
The full Chhattisgarh compliance table — every state-level fact we track, with sources — is on the Chhattisgarh state page.
The Raipur trade, honestly
Raipur sits in a materials belt — Chhattisgarh produces cement and steel in quantity, with Bhilai’s plant nearby — so inputs travel short distances even as their prices track national indices. The contracting pipeline pairs the greenfield capital at Nava Raipur, still adding institutional and infrastructure packages, with state PWD roads and buildings, housing board work and industrial construction for the mineral economy. Departmental jobs run on SOR agreements, measurement books and running bills with security deposit and labour cess, and the subcontracting chains serving industrial clients bring 194C deductions and back-to-back measurement terms into everyday billing.
What a Raipur contractor gets
- Project portfolio with parties, document register and a health read
- BOQ, schedule-of-rates library, rate analysis & variation orders
- WBS, CPM critical path and float, baselines & 14-day look-ahead
- Delay analysis against the saved baseline
- Material indents → Procurement PR/PO/GRN with receipt progress
- Labour, equipment-hour and site-expense capture into the core ledger
- Measurement Book with a cumulative BOQ-quantity guard
- RA billing waterfall — retention, advance recovery, LD, 194C TDS, GST
- Running contractor statement that ties out every bill
- Project costing and budget-vs-actual against the estimate
- EVM — CPI/SPI, cost-to-complete, EAC, VAC and project profitability
- Quality & safety — NCR/CAPA, snags, the HSE register, and a blocked-until-clear handover
Plans are ₹249, ₹449 and ₹2,499 a month — GST-inclusive totals on pricing. New to the terms? Place of supply decides the tax head on every invoice, and goods movements may need an e-way bill.
What it does not do — in Raipur or anywhere
- · The Construction pack is Cloud-only — it runs in a browser, not in the offline Windows desktop edition, in Raipur or anywhere.
- · It does not register your establishment with the BOCW board or file the cess — it carries the cess as a cost line; registration stays between you and the board.
- · It is not a CAD, BIM or quantity-takeoff tool — BOQ quantities are entered against the schedule of rates, not derived from drawings.
- · GST and 194C TDS are computed on the RA bill but not filed for you; submission stays with you or your CA.
- · No office in Raipur — sales and support are online (email and WhatsApp) from an India-based team, with no local branch, reseller or on-site visit.
- · No payroll, attendance or HR module — staff salaries and professional tax stay with your CA, in Chhattisgarh as everywhere.
Questions Raipur contractors ask
Does the Construction pack work for a Raipur contractor?
Yes. Projects carry a priced BOQ against a schedule-of-rates library with rate analysis and variation orders, a WBS with a full critical-path pass, and site execution — indents, labour logs, equipment hours, expenses — that posts into the core books rather than a second set. It is a Cloud pack, run from any browser, and nothing is city-locked.
Who collects the labour cess on Raipur sites?
Chhattisgarh Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (cglabour.nic.in) (CG Labour Dept (cglabour.nic.in) board document, checked 2026-08-05) — the board that registers establishments and collects the 1% BOCW cess in Chhattisgarh. LekhaPro carries the cess as a cost line in the project accounts; registering with the board and depositing the cess stay between you and it.
How do measurement books become RA bills?
Each Measurement Book line records this-bill quantity against the BOQ ceiling and the cumulative already certified, and the RA generator refuses quantity beyond the ceiling — over-billing needs a variation order, not a keystroke. The bill then runs one waterfall: gross, less retention, less advance recovery, less LD, less 194C TDS, plus GST, to a net certified figure the running statement ties out on every bill.
How does GST work on a Raipur works contract?
The place of supply for works on immovable property is where the site stands — so a Raipur project answers to Chhattisgarh (code 22) regardless of where your head office sits, and the RA bill raises CGST + SGST or IGST accordingly on the core invoice path. Whether an out-of-state contractor needs a local registration is a question for your CA; the pack computes and posts either way.
Are retention and mobilisation advances tracked?
Yes, with server-side caps: retention stops accruing at the contract ceiling, advance recovery stops at the outstanding mobilisation balance, and the LD penalty is capped at its ceiling — each computed on the bill, not remembered in a spreadsheet. The running contractor statement asserts the waterfall identity across the whole bill series.
Can it tell me a project is slipping before the client does?
That is what the schedule and earned-value layer is for: saved baselines with delay analysis against them, a 14-day look-ahead, and PV/EV/AC producing CPI and SPI with cost-to-complete and estimate-at-completion. A CPI drifting below par on a Raipur job shows up in the numbers months before it shows up in a site meeting.
How do site materials and expenses reach the books?
Material indents approve into purchase requisitions that Procurement carries through PR → PO → GRN with receipt progress reported back; labour logs give cost per unit by work type; equipment logs are hours × rate plus fuel; and site expenses go draft → approve → post into the core expense ledger. There is no parallel site cashbook to reconcile later.
Can quality or safety issues block a handover?
Yes — deliberately. Inspections, material tests, NCRs with CAPA, a snag list and an HSE register run alongside execution, and handover stays blocked while snags or NCRs are open. Closing it stamps the warranty and flips the project into defect liability, which is the sequence a client's engineer expects to see.
What about e-way bills for material moving to site?
Within Chhattisgarh, an e-way bill applies above ₹50,000 (only 15 notified goods, district-to-district; other goods exempt) (Ntf. F-10-31/2018/CT/V(46) · CG Gazette 23-06-2018, checked 2026-08-05); inter-state movements follow the national ₹50,000 rule. LekhaPro generates the JSON from the underlying document either way.
How do we try it on a live Raipur project?
14 days free, no card. Load one real BOQ, enter last month's measurements and generate the RA bill — then put it beside the one your billing engineer produced, because the waterfall reconciling to the paise is the point. We sell and support online only, with no Raipur branch. Local context: Raipur sits in a materials belt — Chhattisgarh produces cement and steel in quantity, with Bhilai’s plant nearby — so inputs travel short distances even as their prices track national indices.