REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948 FOR

THE YEAR 2006

TABLE-3

1.CHIEF LABOUR COMMISSIONER (CENTRAL)

Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers in Scheduled Employments.

S.NO. NAME OF THE SCHEDULED EMPLOYMENT MINIMUM WAGES AS ON 31.12.2006 (In Rs.)
BASIC D.A. TOTAL
1 Agriculture Area -C 102.00 5.78 107.78
  Area - A 114.00 6.37 120.37
         
2 Asbestos Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
3 Ashpit cleaning in Railways Area -C Wages Not Reported Reported  
  Area -A      
         
4 Barytes Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
5 Bauxite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
6 Construction / Maintenance of  Area -C 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Roads or  Building operations Area - A 81.00 1.65 82.65
         
7 China Clay Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
8 Copper Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
9  Construction and maintenance of                  Area -C 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Runways/Railways Area - A 81.00 1.65 82.65
         
10 Clay Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
11 Chromite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
12 Dolomite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
13 Employment in laying of Underground Area -C 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Cables, Electric lines, Water Supply Area - A 81.00 1.65 82.65
  lines and Sewerage Pipe Lines        
         
14 Fire Clay Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
15 Felspar Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
16 Gypsum Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
17 Graphite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
18 Granite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
19 Gravel Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
20 Hematite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
21 Iron Ore Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
22 Kyanite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
23 Laterite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
24 Loading, Unloading in Railway  Goods Sheds, Parcel Offices, Godowns, Ware Houses, Docks and Ports Area -C 89.00 1.87 90.87
  Area - A 66.00 1.43 67.43
         
25 Lignite  Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
26 Maintainance of Buildings  Area -C 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Area-A 81.00 1.65 82.65
         
27 Mica Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
28 Manganese Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
29 Magnesite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
30 Magnetite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
31 Marble and Calcite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
32 Ochre Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
33 Quartz Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
34 Quartzite Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
35 Redoxide Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
36 Rock Phosphate Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
37 Stone Breaking or Crushing   82.44 4.80 87.24
         
38 Stone Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
39 Steatite (including Mines producing Soap Stone and Talc)Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
40 Silica Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
41 Slate Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
42 Sweeping and Cleaning    Wages not reported
         
43 Security Services   Wages not reported
44 Uranium Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
  Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
45 White Clay Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65
         
46 Wolfram Mines Above Ground 66.00 1.43 67.43
    Below Ground 78.00 1.65 79.65

AREA ‘A’ 

Ahmedabad

(U.A.)

Greater  Bombay

(U.A.)

Chennai

(U.A.)

Bangalore

(U.A.)

Hyderabad

(U.A.)

Nagpur

(U.A.)

Kolkatta

 

(U.A.)

Kanpur

(U.A.)

Delhi

(U.A.)

AREA ‘B’

Agra

(U.A.)

Ghaziabad

(U.A.)

Meerut

(U.A.)

Ajmer

(U.A.)

Gorakhpur

(U.A.)

Moradabad

(U.A.)

Aligarh

(U.A.)

Guwahati

 

Mysore

(U.A.)

Allahabad

(U.A.)

Guntur

 

Nasik

(U.A.)

Amaravati

(U.A.)

Gwalior

(U.A.)

Pune

(U.A.)

Aurangabad

(U.A.)

Indore

(U.A.)

Patna

(U.A.)

Bareilly

(U.A.)

Hubli-Dharwad

 

Raipur

 

Bhavnagar/Bhopal

 

Jabalpur

(U.A.)

Rajkot

 

Bikaner

 

Jaipur

(U.A.)

Ranchi

(U.A.)

Bhubaneshwar

 

Jalandhar

 

Sholapur

(U.A.)

Amritsar

 

Jamshedpur

(U.A.)

Srinagar

(U.A.)

Calicut

(U.A.)

Jodhpur

 

Surat

(U.A.)

Chandigarh

U.A.)

Kolhapur

(U.A.)

Thiruvananthapuram

(U.A.)

Cochin

(U.A.)

Kalyan

 

Ulhasnagar

 

Coimbatore

(U.A.)

Kota

 

Vododara

(U.A.)

Cuttuck

(U.A.)

Ludhiana

 

Varanasi

(U.A.)

Durgapur

 

Madurai

(U.A.)

Vijaywada

(U.A.)

 

 

 

 

Vishakhapatnam

(U.A.)

 

 

 

 

Warangal

 

Faridabad Complex

NOTE:

Area: ‘ C’  =   will comprise all areas not mentioned in this list

 U.A.         =    Urban Agglomeration