Central and State wise Minimum wages from 1st October 2019
Central Sphere and State-wise Minimum Wages Rate List for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers with effect from 1st October 2019 – Lok Sabha Q & A
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 211
TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.11.2019
MINIMUM WAGES
211. SHRI VENKATESH NETHA BORLAKUNTA: SHRI N. REDDEPPA:
Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:
(a) the details of the minimum wages fixed for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in the country, State-wise;
(b) whether there is a demand for uniform system for fixing wage rates for the workers engaged in the unorganised sector in the country and if so, the details thereof and action taken so far?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)
(a): Under the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, both Central and State Governments are appropriate Governments to fix, review and revise the minimum wages of the workers employed in the scheduled employment under their respective jurisdictions. A copy of current rate of minimum wages w.e.f. 01.10.2019 for Central Sphere is at Annexure ‘A’ and category wise variation in Minimum wages per day in States/UTs is at Annexure ‘B’.
(b): Considering suggestions received from various stakeholders in tripartite consultations, a draft Labour Code on Wages Bill, 2019, had been prepared after amalgamation, simplification and rationalization of the relevant provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of Wages Act, 1936; the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965; and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. Now, the Code on Wages, 2019 has been notified on 08-08-2019 under which the preliminary draft rules have been uploaded on the web-site on 01-11-2019 seeking comments of all stakeholders including general public regarding various provisions of the Act.
The Code on Wages, 2019 will ensure minimum wages to all and timely payment of wages to all employees irrespective of the sector of employment without any wage ceiling.
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Annexure A
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 211 FOR 18.11.2019 BY SHRI VENKATESH NETHA BORLAKUNTA AND SHRI N. REDDEPPA REGARDING MINIMUM WAGES.
Area wise Rates of Minimum Wages for Scheduled Employments in the Central Sphere
As on 01.10.2019
| Name of Scheduled Employment | Category of Worker | Rates of wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.) | ||
| Area A | Area B | Area C | ||
| 1. Agriculture | Unskilled | 383.00 | 350.00 | 347.00 |
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 420.00 | 385.00 | 354.00 | |
| Skilled/Clerical | 455.00 | 420.00 | 384.00 | |
| Highly Skilled | 504.00 | 469.00 | 420.00 | |
| 2. Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | 1. Excavation & removal of over burden with 50 meters lead/1.5 meters lift: | |||
| (a) Soft Soil | 406.00 | |||
| (b) Soft Soil with Rock | 611.00 | |||
| (c) Rock | 809.00 | |||
| 2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 metres lead 1.5 metres lift | 326.00 | |||
| Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size | ||||
| (a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches | 2494.00 | |||
| (b) Above 1.5 Inches to 3.0 Inches | 2133.00 | |||
| (c) Above 3.0 Inches to 5 Inches | 1252.00 | |||
| (d) Above 5.0 Inches | 1027.00 | |||
| 3. Sweeping and Cleaning | Unskilled | 603.00 | 503.00 | 403.00 |
| 4. Watch and Ward | Without Arms | 733.00 | 666.00 | 569.00 |
| With Arms | 797.00 | 733.00 | 666.00 | |
| 5. Loading and Unloading | Unskilled | 603.00 | 503.00 | 403.00 |
| 6. Construction | Unskilled | 603.00 | 503.00 | 403.00 |
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 666.00 | 569.00 | 472.00 | |
| Skilled/Clerical | 733.00 | 666.00 | 569.00 | |
| Highly Skilled | 797.00 | 733.00 | 666.00 | |
| 7. Non-Coal Mines | Above Ground | Below Ground | ||
| Unskilled | 403.00 | 503.00 | ||
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 503.00 | 603.00 | ||
| Skilled/Clerical | 603.00 | 703.00 | ||
| Highly Skilled | 703.00 | 785.00 | ||
| Name of Scheduled Employment | Nomenclature |
| 1. Agriculture | Agriculture |
| 2. Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing |
| 3. Sweeping and Cleaning | Employment of Sweeping and Cleaning excluding Activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 |
| 4. Watch and Ward | Employment of Watch and Ward |
| 5. Loading and Unloading | Employment in Loading and Unloading in (i) Goods Sheds, Parcel Offices of Railways; (ii) Other Goodssheds, Godowns, Warehouses etc. and; (iii) Docks and Ports |
| 6. Construction | Construction or maintenance of Roads or Runways or in Building Operations including laying down Underground Electric, Wireless, Radio, Television, Telephone, Telegraph and Overseas Communication Cables and similar other Underground Cabling Work, Electric Lines, Water Supply Lines and Sewerage Pipe Lines |
| 7. Non-Coal Mines | Employees engaged in the employment of Gypsum, Barytes, Bauxite, Manganese, China Clay, Kyanite, Copper,Clay, Magnesite, White Clay, Stone, Steatite (including the mines producing Soap Stones and Talc), Orchre, Asbestos, Fire Clay, Chromite, Quartzite, Quartz, Silica, Graphite, Felspar, Laterite, Dolomite, Red Oxide, Wolfram, Iron Ore, Granite, Rock Phosphate, Hematite, Marble and Calcite, Uranium, Mica, Lignite, Grave, Slate and Magnetite Mines |
CLASSIFICATION OF AREA
| AREA – “A” | |||||
| Ahmedabad | (UA) | Hyderabad | (UA) | Faridabad complex | |
| Bangaluru | (UA) | Kanpur | (UA) | Ghaziabad | |
| Kolkata | (UA) | Lucknow | (UA) | Gurgaon | |
| Delhi | (UA) | Chennai | (UA) | Noida | |
| Greater Mumbai | (UA) | Nagpur | (UA) | Secunderabad | |
| Navi Mumbai | Pune | (UA) | |||
| AREA – “B” | |||||
| Agra | (UA) | Gwalior | (UA) | Port Blair | (UA) |
| Ajmer | (UA) | Hubli-Dharwad | (M. Corpn) | Puducherry | (UA) |
| Aligarh | (UA) | Indore | (UA) | Raipur | (UA) |
| Allahabad | (UA) | Jabalpur | (UA) | Raurkela | (UA) |
| Amravati | (M.Corpn) | Jaipur | (M.Corpn) | Rajkot | (UA) |
| Amritsar | (UA) | Jalandhar | (UA) | Ranchi | (UA) |
| Asansol | (UA) | Jalandhar-Cantt. | (UA) | Saharanpur | (M.Corp n) |
| Aurangabad | (UA) | Jammu | (UA) | Salem | (UA) |
| Bareilly | (UA) | Jamnagar | (UA) | Sangli | (UA) |
| Belgaum | (UA) | Jamshedpur | (UA) | Shillong | |
| Bhavnagar | (UA) | Jhansi | (UA) | Siliguri | (UA) |
| Bhiwandi | (UA) | Jodhpur | (UA) | Solapur | (M.Corpn) |
| Bhopal | (UA) | Kannur | (UA) | Srinagar | (UA) |
| Bhubaneshwar | (UA) | Kochi | (UA) | Surat | (UA) |
| Bikaner | (M.Corpn) | Kolhapur | (UA) | Thiruvanantapuram | (UA) |
| Bokaro Steel City | (UA) | Kollam | (UA) | Thrissur | (UA) |
| Chandigarh | (UA) | Kota | (M.Corpn) | Tiruchirappalli | (UA) |
| Coimbatore | (UA) | Kozhikode | (UA) | Tiruppur | (UA) |
| Cuttack | (UA) | Ludhiana | (M.Corpn) | Ujjain | (M.Corpn) |
| Dehradun | (UA) | Madurai | (UA) | Vadodara | (UA) |
| Dhanbad | (UA) | Malappuram | (UA) | Varanasi | (UA) |
| Durgapur | (UA) | Malegaon | (UA) | Vasai- Virar City | (M.Corpn) |
| Durg-Bhilai Nagar | (UA) | Mangalore | (UA) | Vijayawada | (UA) |
| Erode | (UA) | Meerut | (UA) | Vishakhapatnam | (M.Corpn) |
| Firozabad | Moradabad | (M. Corpn) | Warangal | (UA) | |
| Goa | Mysore | (UA) | Gorakhpur | (UA) | |
| NandedWaghala | (M. Corpn) | GreaterVisakhapatnam | (M.Corpn) | Nasik | (UA) |
| Gulbarga | (UA) | Nellore | (UA) | Guntur | (UA) |
| Panchkula | (UA) | Guwahati | (UA) | Patna | (UA) |
| Area “C” will comprise all areas not mentioned in this list. | |||||
| NB: U.A. stands for Urban Agglomeration | |||||
Annexure B
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 211 FOR 18.11.2019 BY SHRI VENKATESH NETHA BORLAKUNTA AND SHRI N. REDDEPPA REGARDING MINIMUM WAGES.
Category wise variation in Minimum Wages per day in All States/UTs as Data provided by States/UTs Government provisional)
| Sl. No. |
State/UT | Categories | |||||||
| Unskilled | Semi Skilled | Skilled | Highly Skilled | ||||||
| Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | ||
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 161.00 | 424.00 | 179.00 | 447.00 | 182.00 | 507.00 | 182.00 | 611.00 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 150.00 | 170.00 | 160.00 | 180.00 | 170.00 | 190.00 | – | – |
| 3 | Assam | 254.91 | – | 297.40 | – | 371.75 | – | – | 477.98 |
| 4 | Bihar | 268.00 | – | 279.00 | – | 340.00 | – | – | 415.00 |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | 234.00 | 325.00 | 249.95 | 350.00 | 242.79 | 380.00 | 338.00 | 410.00 |
| 6 | Goa | 307.00 | – | 367.00 | – | 423.00 | – | 465.00 | – |
| 7 | Gujarat | 268.00 | 276.00 | 276.00 | 284.00 | 284.00 | 293.00 | – | – |
| 8 | Haryana | 339.51 | – | 359.46 | 374.31 | 393.03 | 412.88 | 433.31 | – |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | 225.00 | 225.00 | 233.47 | 242.00 | 261.52 | 269.17 | 282.50 | 329.50 |
| 10 | Jammu & Kashmir | 225.00 | – | 350.00 | – | 400.00 | – | – | – |
| 11 | Jharkhand | 249.83 | – | 261.73 | – | 345.01 | – | 398.54 | – |
| 12 | Karnataka | 262.40 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 607.32 |
| 13 | Kerala | 317.30 | 542.40 | 322.30 | 522.30 | 340.14 | 557.30 | 352.14 | 580.30 |
| 14 | Madhya Pradesh | 296.00 | – | 329.00 | – | 382.00 | – | 432.00 | – |
| 15 | Maharashtra | 180.00 | 315.49 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 16 | Meghalaya | 300.00 | – | 340.00 | – | 380.00 | – | 420.00 | – |
| 17 | Manipur | 273.00 | – | 248.00 | – | 225.00 | – | – | – |
| 18 | Mizoram | 270.00 | – | 300.00 | – | 370.00 | – | 460.00 | – |
| 19 | Nagaland | 115.00 | – | 125.00 | – | 135.00 | – | 145.00 | – |
| 20 | Odisha | 280.00 | – | 320.00 | – | 370.00 | – | 430.00 | – |
| 21 | Punjab | 325.53 | – | 355.53 | – | 390.03 | – | 429.73 | – |
| 22 | Rajasthan | 213.00 | – | 223.00 | – | 233.00 | – | 283.00 | – |
| 23 | Sikkim | 300.00 | – | 320.00 | – | 335.00 | – | 365.00 | – |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu | 244.45 | 654.73 | 248.95 | 731.73 | 265.00 | 808.73 | 332.61 | 832.50 |
| 25 | Tripura | 176.00 | 346.00 | 214.00 | 375.00 | 226.00 | 403.00 | 343.00 | 669.00 |
| 26 | Uttarakhand | 310.00 | 346.00 | 315.00 | 353.00 | 320.00 | 397.00 | 336.00 | 429.00 |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh | 318.42 | 350.26 | 392.35 | – | ||||
| 28 | West Bengal | 276.00 | 315.00 | 304.00 | 346.00 | 334.00 | 381.00 | 367.00 | 419.00 |
| 29 | A.& N. Islands | 451.00 | – | 508.00 | – | 593.00 | – | 651.00 | – |
| 30 | Chandigarh | 386.00 | – | 392.00 | – | 412.00 | – | 428.00 | – |
| 31 | D & N Haveli | 294.10 | – | 302.10 | – | 310.10 | – | – | – |
| 32 | Daman & Diu | 294.10 | – | 302.10 | – | 310.10 | – | – | – |
| 33 | Delhi | 538.00 | – | 592.00 | – | 652.00 | – | – | – |
| 34 | Lakshadweep | 314.80 | – | 339.80 | – | 364.80 | – | 389.80 | – |
| 35 | Puducherry | 206.00 | 336.00 | 216.00 | 346.00 | 209.00 | 352.00 | 233.00 | 359.00 |
| 36 | Telangana | 174.62 | 395.06 | 192.81 | 452.75 | 195.97 | 517.57 | 198.47 | 641.87 |
*Data presented as received from States/UTs Govt. as on date 01.10.2019.
Source: Lok Sabha
Also check the following links related to this topic:
Railway Minimum wages and variable rate of DA from 1st October 2019 – Railway Board order
Minimum Wages and VDA for Labourers and Industrial Workers from 1st October 2019
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