Rates of existing Minimum Wages fixed for the Skilled, Semi –skilled and Un-skilled workers effective from 01.10.2014

d, Semi –skilled and Un-skilled workers for the Central Sphere under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 effective from 01.10.2014:-

As on 01.10.2014
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		217	197	195
	Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory		237	219	200
	Skilled/Clerical		258	237	218
	Highly Skilled		286	265	237
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		221.4
	(b) Soft Soil with Rock		334.57
	(c) Rock		443.86
	2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 metres lead 1.5 metres lift		176.73
	Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size
	(a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches		1377.35
	(b) Above 1.5 Inches to 3.0 Inches		1176.92
	(c) Above 3.0 Inches to 5 Inches		688.13
	(d) Above 5.0 Inches		565.08
3. Sweeping and Cleaning	Unskilled		332	276	222
4. Watch and Ward	Without Arms		367	312	259
	With Arms		404	367	312
5. Loading and Unloading	Unskilled		332	276	222
6. Construction	Unskilled		332	276	222
	Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory		367	312	259
	Skilled/Clerical		404	367	312
	Highly Skilled		439	404	367
7. Non-Coal Mines			Above Ground	Below Ground
	Unskilled		222	276
	Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory		276	332
	Skilled/Clerical		332	386
	Highly Skilled		386	439

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 above statement was annexed with the answers of undermentioned Lok Sabha Question:-

 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 158

ANSWERED ON 24.11.2014

UNIFORM MINIMUM WAGES

158 . Naik Prof. Seetaram Ajmeera

Singh Shri Dushyant, Birla Shri Om

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

(a)the details of minimum wages fixed for the skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in the country, State/UT-wise; 

(b)whether the Government proposes to introduce a uniform system by linking inflation index for fixing wage rates for the workers of unorganised sector throughout the country; 

(c)if so, the details thereof along with the status of families living on minimum wages and below poverty line in the country; and 

(d)the action taken by the Government in this regard so far?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA) 

(a): A statement showing the rates of existing Minimum Wages fixed for the Skilled, Semi –skilled and Un-skilled workers for the Central Sphere under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 effective from 01.10.2014 is at Annexure. 

(b) to (d): In order to protect the minimum wages against inflation, Central Government has already adopted the Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) as a component of minimum wage and which is revised twice a year taking into account the rise in the Consumer Price Indices. In the Central sphere, the minimum rates of wages are revised effective from 1st April and 1st October every year. 

The details of the status of families living on minimum wages and below poverty line are not maintained by the Ministry. 

Source: LokSabha.nic.in

Annexure: http://164.100.47.132/Annexture_New/lsq16/3/au158.htm

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