Lok Sabha Question No. 1716 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-10
Subject: Minimum Wage
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Joyanta Basumatary

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1716 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.03.2025

## MINIMUM WAGE

1716. SHRI JOYANTA BASUMATARY:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)the details of minimum wage for various types of workers over the
- last five years, Statewise;
- (b)the  manner  in  which  the  Government  overcome  the  significant regional disparities in minimum wage across the country particularly in the North Eastern Region; and
- (c)the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  enhance  the  capacity  of State-level Wage Boards and ensure that minimum wage revisions are conducted in a timely and evidence-based manner?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

(a) to (c): Under the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act 1948, the Central  Government  and  the  State  Governments,  as  appropriate Government,  fix,  review  and  revise  the  minimum  wages  of  the employees  employed  in  the  Scheduled  Employments  under  their respective  jurisdictions.  The  minimum  wage  rates  are  determined and revised according to the specific needs and economic conditions of each region, which results in variations across different States and sectors.

Accordingly, the minimum rates of wages in the scheduled employments  in  the  Central  sphere  were  revised  by  the  Central

Government in 2017.

Further,  in  order  to  take  care  of  the  rising  prices,  the Central Government revises the Variable Dearness Allowance (V.D.A) on basic rates of minimum wages every six months, effective from 1st April and 1st October of every year on the basis of Consumer Price Index  for  Industrial  workers.  Latest  V.D.A.  as  applicable  from 01.10.2024 is at Annexure.

Recently, the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 have  been  rationalized  and  subsumed  under  the  Code  on  Wages, 2019. The Code on Wages, 2019 provides for universal minimum wage applicable across all employments. The Code further mandates the Central Government to fix floor wage applicable across the Central and the State sphere and the minimum rates of wages fixed by the appropriate Government shall not be less than the floor wage.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1716 for 10.03.2025

Area wise Rates of Minimum Wages for Scheduled Employments in the Central Sphere (as on 01.10.2024)

| Sr. No.   | Scheduled Employment                                                 | Category Workers                                                                          | Rates of Wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.)                                           | Rates of Wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.)                                           | Rates of Wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.)                                           |
|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | Scheduled Employment                                                 | Category Workers                                                                          | Area A                                                                                    | Area B                                                                                    | Area C                                                                                    |
| 1.        | Agriculture                                                          | Unskilled                                                                                 | 500                                                                                       | 457                                                                                       | 452                                                                                       |
| 1.        | Agriculture                                                          | Semi- skilled/Unskilled Supervisory                                                       | 546                                                                                       | 502                                                                                       | 462                                                                                       |
| 1.        | Agriculture                                                          | Skilled/Clerical                                                                          | 593                                                                                       | 546                                                                                       | 501                                                                                       |
| 1.        | Agriculture                                                          | Highly-skilled                                                                            | 656                                                                                       | 611                                                                                       | 546                                                                                       |
| 2.        | Sweeping and Cleaning +                                              | Unskilled                                                                                 | 783                                                                                       | 655                                                                                       | 526                                                                                       |
| 3.        | Watch and Ward                                                       | Without Arms (Upgraded to skilled with training)                                          | 954                                                                                       | 868                                                                                       | 739                                                                                       |
| 3.        | Watch and Ward                                                       | With Arms (Upgraded to highly skilled for supervision)                                    | 1035                                                                                      | 954                                                                                       | 868                                                                                       |
| 4.        | Loading & Unloading #                                                | Unskilled                                                                                 | 783                                                                                       | 655                                                                                       | 526                                                                                       |
| 5.        | Construction ^                                                       | Unskilled                                                                                 | 783                                                                                       | 655                                                                                       | 526                                                                                       |
| 5.        | Construction ^                                                       | Semi- skilled/Unskilled Supervisory                                                       | 868                                                                                       | 739                                                                                       | 614                                                                                       |
| 5.        | Construction ^                                                       | Skilled/Clerical                                                                          | 954                                                                                       | 868                                                                                       | 739                                                                                       |
| 5.        | Construction ^                                                       | Highly-skilled                                                                            | 1035                                                                                      | 954                                                                                       | 868                                                                                       |
|           | 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:*                | 1.Excavation &removal of over burden with 50 meters lead/1.5 meters lift:*                | 1.Excavation &removal of over burden with 50 meters lead/1.5 meters lift:*                | 1.Excavation &removal of over burden with 50 meters lead/1.5 meters lift:*                |
|           | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | (a) Soft Soil                                                                             |                                                                                           | 530                                                                                       |                                                                                           |
|           | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | (b) Soft Soil with Rock                                                                   |                                                                                           | 795                                                                                       |                                                                                           |
|           | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | (c) Rock                                                                                  |                                                                                           | 1053                                                                                      |                                                                                           |
|           | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | 2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 metres                                  | 2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 metres                                  | 426                                                                                       |                                                                                           |
|           |                                                                      | lead/1.5metres lift* 3. Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size of category** | lead/1.5metres lift* 3. Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size of category** | lead/1.5metres lift* 3. Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size of category** | lead/1.5metres lift* 3. Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size of category** |
|           |                                                                      | (a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches                                                                | (a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches                                                                | 3232                                                                                      |                                                                                           |
|           |                                                                      | (b) Above 1.5 Inches to 3.0 Inches                                                        | (b) Above 1.5 Inches to 3.0 Inches                                                        | 2764                                                                                      |                                                                                           |
|           |                                                                      | (c) Above 3.0 Inches to 5 Inches                                                          | (c) Above 3.0 Inches to 5 Inches                                                          | 1623                                                                                      |                                                                                           |
|           |                                                                      | (d) Above 5.0 Inches                                                                      | (d) Above 5.0 Inches                                                                      | 1334                                                                                      |                                                                                           |
| 7.        | Non-coal Mines $                                                     |                                                                                           |                                                                                           | Above Ground {Rates of Wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.)}                            | Below Ground {Rates of Wages including V.D.A per day (in Rs.)}                            |
| 7.        |                                                                      | Unskilled                                                                                 | Unskilled                                                                                 | 526                                                                                       | 655                                                                                       |
| 7.        |                                                                      | Semi-skilled/Unskilled                                                                    | Semi-skilled/Unskilled                                                                    | 655                                                                                       | 783                                                                                       |
| 7.        |                                                                      | Skilled/Clerical                                                                          | Skilled/Clerical                                                                          | 783                                                                                       | 912                                                                                       |
| 7.        |                                                                      | Highly-skilled                                                                            | Highly-skilled                                                                            | 912                                                                                       | 1020                                                                                      |

+ Employees engaged in the employment of Sweeping and Cleaning excluding Activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993.
- # Employees  engaged  in  the  employment  of  Loading  and  Unloading  in  (i)  Goods  Sheds,  Parcel  Offices  of Railways; (ii) Other Goods Sheds, Godowns, Warehouses and other similar employments; (iii) Docks and Ports; and (iv) Passengers Goods and Cargo Carried out at Airports (Both International and Domestic).
- ^ Employees engaged in the employment of 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.
- $ Employees engaged in the employment of Gypsum Mines, Barytes Mines, Bauxite Mines, Manganese Mines, China Clay Mines, Kyanite Mines, Copper Mines, Clay Mines, Magnesite Mines, White Clay Mines, Stone Mines, Steatite Mines (including the mines producing Soap Stones and Talc), Ochre Mines, Asbestos Mines, Fire Clay Mines, Chromite Mines, Quartzite Mines, Quartz Mines, Silica Mines, Graphite Mines, Felspar Mines, Laterite Mines, Dolomite Mines, Red Oxide Mines, Wolfram Mines, Iron Ore Mines, Granite Mines, Rock Phosphate Mines, Hematite Mines, Marble and Calcite Mines, Uranium Mines, Mica Mines, Lignite Mines, Gravel Mines, Slate and Magnetite Mines.

(Contd/-)

## 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'             | AREA - 'B' | AREA - 'B'           | AREA - 'B' | AREA - 'B'          | 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.Corpn)  |
| 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)       |

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