Minimum Wages in India: Central Sphere Minimum Wages with effect from April 1, 2013
Area-wise Minimum Rates of Wages for the Scheduled Employments in the Central Sphere
| Sr. No. | Name of Scheduled Employment | Category of Workers | Rate of wages including VDA per day (in Rs.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area A | Area B | Area C | |||
| 1 | Agriculture | Unskilled | 195 | 177 | 175 |
| Semi skilled/ Unskilled Supervisor | 213 | 197 | 180 | ||
| Skilled/ Clerical | 232 | 213 | 196 | ||
| Highly Skilled | 258 | 238 | 213 | ||
| 2 | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | 1. Excavation & removal of over burden with 50 m lead/1.5 meters lift | |||
| (a) Soft Soil | 198.11 | ||||
| (b) Soft Soil with Rock | 299.63 | ||||
| (c ) Rock | 397.26 | ||||
| 2. Removal and Staking of rejected stones with 50 meters lead 1.5 meters lift | 158.1 | ||||
| Stone Breaking or Stone Crushing for the stone size | |||||
| (a) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches | 1232.87 | ||||
| (b) Above 1.5 inches to 3.0 inches | 1053.41 | ||||
| (c ) Above 3.0 inches to 5.0 inches | 615.89 | ||||
| (d) Above 5.0 inches | 505.66 | ||||
| 3 | Sweeping and Cleaning | Unskilled | 297 | 246 | 198 |
| 4 | Watch and Ward | Without Arms | 328 | 279 | 231 |
| With Arms | 361 | 328 | 279 | ||
| 5 | Loading and Unloading | Unskilled | 297 | 246 | 198 |
| 6 | Construction | Unskilled | 297 | 246 | 198 |
| Semi skilled/ Unskilled Supervisor | 328 | 279 | 231 | ||
| Skilled/ Clerical | 361 | 328 | 279 | ||
| Highly Skilled | 393 | 361 | 328 | ||
| 7 | Non-Coal Mines | Above Ground | Below Ground | ||
| Unskilled | 198 | 246 | |||
| Semi skilled/ Unskilled Supervisor | 246 | 297 | |||
| Skilled/ Clerical | 297 | 345 | |||
| Highly Skilled | 345 | 393 | |||
| Sr. No. | Name of Scheduled employment | Nomenclature | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agriculture (1) | Agriculture | |||
| 2 | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing (1) | Workers engaged in Stone Mines for Stone Breaking and Stone Crushing | |||
| 3 | Sweeping and Cleaning (1) | 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 (1) | Employment of Watch and Ward | |||
| 5 | Loading and Unloading (1) | Employment of Loading and Unloading in (i) Goods Shed, Parcel Officers of Railways; (ii) Other Goods sheds, Godowns, Warehouses, etc. and; (iii) Docks and Ports | |||
| 6 | Construction (4) | Construction or maintenance of Roads and 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 Sewage Pipe Lines | |||
| 7 | Non-Coal Mines (36) | Employees engaged in the employment of Gypsum Mines, Barytes Mines, Bauxite Mines, Manganese Mines, China Clay Mines, Kynite Mines, Copper Mines, Magnesite Mines, White Clay Mines, Stone Mines, Stone Mine, Statite Mines (including 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 Mines, and Magnetite Mines | |||
| Area "A" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad (UA) | Delhi (UA) | Kanpur (UA) |
| Bengaluru (UA) | Greater Mumbai (UA) | Lucknow (UA) |
| Kolkata (UA) | Hyderabad (UA) | Chennai (UA) |
| Nagpur (UA) | Noida | Ghaziabad |
| Navi Mumbai | Secunderabad | Gurgaon |
| Faridabad complex | ||
| Area "B" | ||
| Agra | Gorakhpur(UA) | Mysore (UA) |
| Ajmer(UA) | Guwahati City(UA) | Nasik (UA) |
| Aligarh(UA) | Guntur(UA) | Pune (UA) |
| Allahabad (UA) | Gwalior (UA) | Patna (UA) |
| Amravati | Indore (UA) | Raipur (UA) |
| Aurangabad | Hubli- Dharwad(UA) | Rajkot |
| Bareilly (UA) | Jabalpur (UA) | Ranchi (UA) |
| Bhavnagar(UA) | Jaipur (UA) | Sholapur (UA) |
| Bikaner(UA) | Jamshedpur (UA) | Srinagar (UA) |
| Bhopal(UA) | Jodhpur | Surat (UA) |
| Bhubaneshwar(UA) | Kochi (UA) | Tiruvanantapuram (UA) |
| Amritsar(UA) | Kolhapur (UA) | Vadodara (UA) |
| Chandigarh (UA) | Kozhikode (UA) | Varanasi (UA) |
| Coimbatore (UA) | Kota | Vijaywada (UA) |
| Cuttack | Ludhiana | Vishakhapatnam (UA) |
| Durgapur(UA) | Madurai (UA) | Warangal(UA) |
| Jalandhar(UA) | Meerat (UA) | Puducherry(UA) |
| Mangalore(UA) | Moradabad (UA) | Selem(UA) |
| Tiruppur(UA) | Belgaum(UA) | Dehradun |
| Tiruchirappalli(UA) | Bhiwandi(UA) | Durg-Bhilai(UA) |
| Jalandhar-cantt. | Asansol(UA) | Jammu(UA) |
| Jamnagar(UA) | Dhanbad(UA) | |
| Area "C" will comprise of all areas not mentioned in this list | ||
| NB: U.A stands for Urban Agglomeration | ||
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Definition: Unskilled, Semi-skilled, Skilled & Highly Skilled Workers Source: Department of Labour and Employment, Government of India Disclaimer: Minimum Wages have been provided by the Labour Departments of respective states. |