Central and State wise Minimum wages from 1st October 2019

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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 โ€˜Aโ€™ and category wise variation in Minimum wages per day in States/UTs is at Annexure โ€˜Bโ€™.

(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 โ€“ โ€œAโ€
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 โ€“ โ€œBโ€
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 โ€œCโ€ย 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 โ€“ โ€“
3 Assam 254.91 โ€“ 297.40 โ€“ 371.75 โ€“ โ€“ 477.98
4 Bihar 268.00 โ€“ 279.00 โ€“ 340.00 โ€“ โ€“ 415.00
5 Chhattisgarh 234.00 325.00 249.95 350.00 242.79 380.00 338.00 410.00
6 Goa 307.00 โ€“ 367.00 โ€“ 423.00 โ€“ 465.00 โ€“
7 Gujarat 268.00 276.00 276.00 284.00 284.00 293.00 โ€“ โ€“
8 Haryana 339.51 โ€“ 359.46 374.31 393.03 412.88 433.31 โ€“
9 Himachal Pradesh 225.00 225.00 233.47 242.00 261.52 269.17 282.50 329.50
10 Jammu & Kashmir 225.00 โ€“ 350.00 โ€“ 400.00 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
11 Jharkhand 249.83 โ€“ 261.73 โ€“ 345.01 โ€“ 398.54 โ€“
12 Karnataka 262.40 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ 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 โ€“ 329.00 โ€“ 382.00 โ€“ 432.00 โ€“
15 Maharashtra 180.00 315.49 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
16 Meghalaya 300.00 โ€“ 340.00 โ€“ 380.00 โ€“ 420.00 โ€“
17 Manipur 273.00 โ€“ 248.00 โ€“ 225.00 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
18 Mizoram 270.00 โ€“ 300.00 โ€“ 370.00 โ€“ 460.00 โ€“
19 Nagaland 115.00 โ€“ 125.00 โ€“ 135.00 โ€“ 145.00 โ€“
20 Odisha 280.00 โ€“ 320.00 โ€“ 370.00 โ€“ 430.00 โ€“
21 Punjab 325.53 โ€“ 355.53 โ€“ 390.03 โ€“ 429.73 โ€“
22 Rajasthan 213.00 โ€“ 223.00 โ€“ 233.00 โ€“ 283.00 โ€“
23 Sikkim 300.00 โ€“ 320.00 โ€“ 335.00 โ€“ 365.00 โ€“
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 โ€“
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 โ€“ 508.00 โ€“ 593.00 โ€“ 651.00 โ€“
30 Chandigarh 386.00 โ€“ 392.00 โ€“ 412.00 โ€“ 428.00 โ€“
31 D & N Haveli 294.10 โ€“ 302.10 โ€“ 310.10 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
32 Daman & Diu 294.10 โ€“ 302.10 โ€“ 310.10 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
33 Delhi 538.00 โ€“ 592.00 โ€“ 652.00 โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
34 Lakshadweep 314.80 โ€“ 339.80 โ€“ 364.80 โ€“ 389.80 โ€“
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

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