Minimum Wages
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 consisting of agriculture and non-agricultural sector under their respective jurisdictions. The rates of minimum wages fixed for scheduled employments in the Central Sphere is at enlisted.
| As on 01.04.2016 | ||||||
| Name of Schedulded Employment | Category of Worker | Rates of wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.) | ||||
| Area A | Area B | Area C | ||||
| 1. Agriculture | Unskilled | 234.00 | 213.00 | 211.00 | ||
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 256.00 | 236.00 | 216.00 | |||
| Skilled/Clerical | 278.00 | 256.00 | 235.00 | |||
| Highly Skilled | 308.00 | 286.00 | 256.00 | |||
| 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 | 247.00 | |||||
| (b) Soft Soil with Rock | 373.00 | |||||
| (c) Rock | 494.00 | |||||
| 2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 metres lead 1.5 metres lift | 199.00 | |||||
| Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size | ||||||
| (a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches | 1528.00 | |||||
| (b) Above 1.5 Inches to 3.0 Inches | 1307.00 | |||||
| (c) Above 3.0 Inches to 5 Inches | 765.00 | |||||
| (d) Above 5.0 Inches | 628.00 | |||||
| 3. Sweeping and Cleaning | Unskilled | 368.00 | 307.00 | 246.00 | ||
| 4. Watch and Ward | Without Arms | 407.00 | 347.00 | 288.00 | ||
| With Arms | 448.00 | 407.00 | 347.00 | |||
| 5. Loading and Unloading | Unskilled | 368.00 | 307.00 | 246.00 | ||
| 6. Construction | Unskilled | 368.00 | 307.00 | 246.00 | ||
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 407.00 | 347.00 | 288.00 | |||
| Skilled/Clerical | 448.00 | 407.00 | 347.00 | |||
| Highly Skilled | 487.00 | 448.00 | 407.00 | |||
| 7. Non-Coal Mines | Above Ground | Below Ground | ||||
| Unskilled | 246.00 | 307.00 | ||||
| Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory | 307.00 | 368.00 | ||||
| Skilled/Clerical | 368.00 | 429.00 | ||||
| Highly Skilled | 429.00 | 487.00 | ||||
| Name of Schedulded 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 | ||||||
| AREA – “B” | ||||||
| Agra | (UA) | Jodhpur | Jabalpur | (UA) | ||
| Ajmer | Kochi | (UA) | Jaipur | (UA) | ||
| Aligarh | Kolhapur | (UA) | Jalandhar | (UA) | ||
| Allahabad | (UA) | Kozhikode | (UA) | Jamshedpur | (UA) | |
| Amravati | Kota | Puducherry | (UA) | |||
| Aurangabad | (UA) | Ludhiana | Jalandhar-cantt. | |||
| Bareilly | (UA) | Madurai | (UA) | Dhanbad | (UA) | |
| Bhavnagar | Meerut | (UA) | Dehradun | (UA) | ||
| Bikaner | Moradabad | (UA) | Durg-Bhilai Nagar | (UA) | ||
| Bhopal | Mysore | (UA) | Jammu | (UA) | ||
| Bhubaneshwar | Nasik | (UA) | Jamnagar | (UA) | ||
| Amritsar | (UA) | Pune | (UA) | Vijayawada | (UA) | |
| Chandigarh | (UA) | Patna | (UA) | Vishakhapatnam | (UA) | |
| Coimbatore | (UA) | Raipur | (UA) | Warangal | ||
| Cuttack | (UA) | Rajkot | Mangalore | (UA) | ||
| Durgapur | Ranchi | (UA) | Salem | (UA) | ||
| Gorakhpur | Sholapur | Tiruppur | (UA) | |||
| Guwahati City | Srinagar | (UA) | Tiruchirappalli | (UA) | ||
| Guntur | Surat | (UA) | Asansol | (UA) | ||
| Gwalior | (UA) | Thiruvanantapuram | (UA) | Belgaum | (UA) | |
| Indore | (UA) | Vadodara | (UA) | Bhiwandi | (UA) | |
| Hubli-Dharwad | Varanasi | (UA) | ||||
| Area ‘C’ will comprise all areas not mentioned in this list. | ||||||
| NB: U.A. stands for Urban Agglomeration. | ||||||
The range of minimum wages in the State Sphere is at enlisted.
| S. No. | State/UT | Categories | |||||||
| Unskilled | Semi Skilled | Skilled | Highly Skilled | ||||||
| Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | ||
| Central Sphere | 204.00 | 294.00 | 209.00 | 353.00 | 227.00 | 411.00 | 247.00 | 467.00 | |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 69.27 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 858.83 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 150.00 | 170.00 | 160.00 | 180.00 | 170.00 | 190.00 | – | – |
| 3 | Assam | 240.00 | – | 280.00 | – | 350.00 | – | 450.00 | – |
| 4 | Bihar | 181.00 | 197.00 | 188.00 | 206.00 | 232.00 | 251.00 | 282.00 | 308.00 |
| 5 | Chhatisgarh | 157.00 | 242.00 | 201.00 | 247.00 | 210.00 | 256.00 | 236.00 | 266.00 |
| 6 | Goa | 215.00 | 216.00 | 223.00 | 229.00 | 227.00 | 232.00 | 235.00 | 292.00 |
| 7 | Gujarat | 150.00 | 276.00 | 276.00 | 284.00 | 284.00 | 293.00 | – | – |
| 8 | Haryana | 226.40 | 226.40 | 231.40 | 236.40 | 241.40 | 246.40 | 251.40 | 251.40 |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | 170.00 | 185.55 | 180.17 | 187.00 | 206.52 | 214.00 | 227.12 | 274.50 |
| 10 | Jammu & Kashmir* | 150.00 | 150.00 | 175.00 | 175.00 | 225.00 | 225.00 | – | – |
| 11 | Jharkhand | 210.00 | 225.00 | 220.00 | 240.00 | 290.00 | 335.00 | 259.31 | 360.00 |
| 12 | Karnataka | 198.23 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 343.58 |
| 13 | Kerala | 275.46 | 548.70 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | Madhya Pradesh | 187.00 | 253.00 | 248.00 | 339.00 | 294.00 | 387.00 | 337.00 | 389.00 |
| 15 | Maharashtra | 180.00 | 315.49 | – | – | ||||
| 16 | Meghalaya | 170.00 | 170.00 | 181.00 | 181.00 | 191.00 | 191.00 | 212.00 | 212.00 |
| 17 | Manipur | 122.10 | 122.10 | 129.97 | 129.97 | 132.60 | 132.60 | – | – |
| 18 | Mizoram | 220.00 | 220.00 | 250.00 | 250.00 | 310.00 | 380.00 | – | – |
| 19 | Nagaland | 115.00 | 115.00 | 125.00 | 125.00 | 135.00 | 135.00 | 145.00 | 145.00 |
| 20 | Odisha | 200.00 | 200.00 | 220.00 | 220.00 | 240.00 | 240.00 | 260.00 | 260.00 |
| 21 | Punjab | 267.13 | 277.13 | 297.13 | 297.13 | 331.63 | 331.63 | 371.33 | 371.33 |
| 22 | Rajasthan | 166.00 | 166.00 | 176.00 | 176.00 | 186.00 | 186.00 | 236.00 | 236.00 |
| 23 | Sikkim | 220.00 | 220.00 | 242.00 | 242.00 | 275.00 | 275.00 | 319.00 | 319.00 |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu | 146.00 | 431.86 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 25 | Tripura | 142.46 | 346.15 | 162.81 | 375.00 | 184.96 | 403.85 | 280.00 | 405.42 |
| 26 | Uttarakhand | 200.00 | 272.12 | 231.54 | 291.54 | 235.31 | 310.96 | 249.23 | 356.35 |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh | 161.00 | 262.11 | 240.24 | 288.32 | 282.07 | 322.96 | 299.19 | 299.19 |
| 28 | West Bengal | 211.00 | 278.00 | 232.00 | 306.00 | 255.00 | 337.00 | 370.00 | – |
| 29 | A.& N. Islands | 274.00 | 285.00 | 286.00 | 294.00 | 338.00 | 363.00 | 363.00 | 384.00 |
| 30 | Chandigarh | 306.19 | 306.19 | 311.96 | 316.00 | 323.15 | 332.15 | 348.00 | 348.00 |
| 31 | D & N Haveli | 220.80 | 220.80 | 227.30 | 227.30 | 233.80 | 233.80 | – | – |
| 32 | Daman & Diu | 268.20 | 268.20 | 276.20 | 276.20 | 284.20 | 284.20 | – | – |
| 33 | Delhi | 316.00 | 353.00 | 349.00 | 390.00 | 384.00 | 429.00 | – | – |
| 34 | Lakshadweep | 255.20 | 255.20 | 280.50 | 280.20 | 305.20 | 305.20 | 335.20 | 335.20 |
| 35 | Puducherry | 55.00 | 255.00 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 36 | Telangana | 69.27 | 363.26 | ||||||
* Data is yet to be received. Figures indicate rates of wages as on 31.12.2013 in respect of Jammu & Kashmir. Rates for unskilled workers for Assam and West Bengal exclude Tea garden workers.
The implementation of the Act is carried out by the Centre as well as the States in respect of their respective jurisdiction. In the Central Sphere, the enforcement is secured through the Inspecting Officers of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) commonly designated as Central Industrial Relations Machinery (CIRM), the compliance in the State sphere is ensured through the State Enforcement Machinery. They conduct regular inspections and in the event of detection of any case of non-payment or under-payment of minimum wages, they advise the employers to make payment of the shortfall of wages. In case of non-compliance, penal provisions against the defaulting employers are invoked. The details of enforcement of Minimum Wages Act in Central Sphere during the years 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 (upto December 2015) is at enlisted.
Details of Enforcement of Minimum Wages Act, 1948
in Central Sphere Establishments
| Sl. No. | Particulars | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 *Upto Dec, 2015 |
| 1. | No. of Inspections conducted
| 15500 | 13099 | 6497 | 4904 |
| 2. | No. of Irregularities
| 157111 | 129341 | 64987 | 36887 |
| 3. | No. of Prosecution Launched
| 5307 | 5167 | 3566 | 981 |
| 4. | No. of convictions
| 4954 | 5074 | 2694 | 988 |
Source: Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), Ministry of Labour & Employment.
This information given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.