| State-wise Comparative Minimum Wage Rates Prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central and State Spheres in India (As on 31.12.2009) | ||
| Scheduled Employment | Central Sphere/States/UTs | Minimum Wage Rates (Rs.) Per Day |
| Agriculture | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | A -156.00 |
| N -167.00 | ||
| Agriculture Soil Conservation (Workers engaged in Plantation, Reclamation) | ||
| Agricultural Implements, etc. | ||
| Agarbati Manufacturing | ||
| Ahatas/Wine Shops/Liquor Shops | ||
| Animal Husbandry and Veterinary | ||
| Aluminium Industry | ||
| Asbestos Mines | ||
| Asbestos Cement Factory | ||
| Automobile Engineering/Auto Body Fabrication | ||
| Ayurvedic/Allopathic & Unani Pharmacy | ||
| Autorickshaw and Taxi | ||
| Any Manufacturing Process as defined under section 2(k) of the Factories Act, 1948 | ||
| Bakery / Baking Process including Biscuits / Confectionary | ||
| Book Selling/Exercise Books & Binding | ||
| Barytes Mines | ||
| Bauxite Mines | ||
| Bone Crushing Industry | ||
| Building Material & Hardware | ||
| Banks | ||
| Brick Kiln Industry | ||
| Brick Making/ Tiles | ||
| Bobin Industry | ||
| Candle and Wax Industry | ||
| Cable Operator & Allied Service | ||
| Casual Employees/Govt. Offices contigency and works | ||
| Cement and Hume Pipe/Cement Prestressed Product Industry | ||
| Chemicals, Chemical Products and Pharmaceuticals | ||
| Cement Industry/Cement Working Establishments | ||
| Chemical and Distillery Industry | ||
| Chemist and Drug Shops | ||
| China Clay Mines | ||
| Chromite Mines | ||
| Cinema / Theatre/Film Industry | ||
| Clay Mines | ||
| Clubs & Canteens | ||
| Construction/ Maintenance of Building & Roads | ||
| Construction & Maintenance of Runways | ||
| Contractor`s Establishments of Forest Department | ||
| Cotton Waste Spinning Factories | ||
| Computer Hardware Industry and Services | ||
| Chicken Work Manufactory | ||
| Coke (Fuel)/Hard Coke Industry | ||
| Copper Mines | ||
| Construction of Dams, Irrigation Works | ||
| Cotton Ginning and Pressing | ||
| Co-operative Credit Societies/Marketing Societies | ||
| Cold Storage | ||
| Coal Briquette Industry | ||
| Cotton Dyeing, Printing & Washing Factories | ||
| Courier Service | ||
| Crockery/Tent/Household Goods Trade Establishments | ||
| Dairy and Dairy Products/Procurement, processing and distribution of milk | ||
| Dal / Flour / Rice Mills | ||
| Dealer in Electricals and Electrical Goods | ||
| Dealer in Footwear and Travel Goods | ||
| Dealer in Medicines and Chemicals | ||
| Dealer in Photographic and Optical Goods | ||
| Dispensaries | ||
| Distilleries & Breweries | ||
| Dolomite Mines | ||
| Domestic Workers | ||
| Employment in Draught Relief Works | ||
| Earth Cutting Operation | ||
| Educational Research and Cultural Institutions | ||
| Electronic/Electric Industry | ||
| Electricity Generation and Distribution | ||
| Electroplating / Buffing / Polishing | ||
| Employment in Boating | ||
| Employment in Laying of Under-ground Electric Lines, Water Supply Lines and Sewerage Pipe Lines etc. | ||
| Employment in Dharamshalas | ||
| Employment in registered Factories not elsewhere classified | ||
| Employment of non-teaching staff in Private Non-grant-aided educational institutions | ||
| Engineering Industry Employing 50 to 500 workers | ||
| Engineering Industry Employing morethan 500 workers | ||
| Electro Casting Industry | ||
| Establishments defined under Section 2(1)(VIII) of Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 | ||
| Felspar Mines | ||
| Film Production/Motion Picture/Studios, Production, Distribution and Publicity | ||
| Fire Clay Mines | ||
| Food Processing/Food Products | ||
| Fisheries & Sea Food | ||
| Forestry /Timbering Operations & Social Forestry | ||
| Foundries | ||
| Fruit Preservation /Fruit Juice | ||
| Florescent Tube and Electric Bulb Industry | ||
| Frittered Rice | ||
| General Engineering | ||
| Glass /Chinaware Industry | ||
| Grass Cutting | ||
| Granite Mines | ||
| Graphite Mines and Graphite Industries | ||
| Gold and Silver Ornaments and Gold Coating/Covering | ||
| Gota Kinari Industry | ||
| Gypsum Mines | ||
| Gravel Mines | ||
| Gun Factories/Arms and Ammunition | ||
| Hair Cutting Saloon | ||
| Hematite Mines | ||
| Hosiery | ||
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes and Private Clinics | ||
| Hotels and Restaurants or Eating Houses | ||
| Handloom Weaving | ||
| Ice Factory, Cold Drinks and Cold Storage | ||
| Ice Cream / Ice Candy Ice Products | ||
| Irrigation Works | ||
| Iron Ore Mine | ||
| Industrial Establishments | ||
| Information Technology | ||
| Jari Industry | ||
| Jute and Coir Industry | ||
| Jute Patti Industry | ||
| Khadi & Village Industry | ||
| Khandsari / Sugar | ||
| Kyanite Mines | ||
| Lac Manufacturing | ||
| Lakshadweep Development Corporation | ||
| Lakshadweep Harbour Works | ||
| Laterite Mines | ||
| Laundries / Dry Washing /Dyeing Plants | ||
| LPG Distribution/Manufactory | ||
| Leather Industry | ||
| Loading and Unloading | ||
| Libraries | ||
| Lignite Mines | ||
| Local Authority/Municipality/Municipal Corporation/Gram Panchayat | ||
| Load Carrying | ||
| Marble and Calcite Mines | ||
| Match, Fire Works & Explosives | ||
| Manufacture of Dolls and Toys and Brass and Bell Metal | ||
| Mica Works | ||
| Mica Mines | ||
| Minor Engineering Industry | ||
| Metal Rolling / Re-rolling (Non-Ferrous) | ||
| Metal Rolling & Re-rolling (Ferrous) | ||
| Metal Industry | ||
| Metal and Alloy Industry | ||
| Meat Selling | ||
| Motor Body Builders/Mechanical/Local Transport Workshops/Automobile Repairing Workshops and Garages | ||
| Mines and Minerals | ||
| Mineral Grinding Industry | ||
| Manufacture of Radio by Assembling of Parts | ||
| Magnetite Mines | ||
| Magnesite Mines | ||
| Manganese Mines | ||
| Manufacture of Sport Goods | ||
| Maintenance of Buildings | ||
| Non-Govt. Organisations | ||
| Oil Mills | ||
| Ochre Mines | ||
| Other Manufacturing Process Covered under Section(2k) of the Factories Act,1948 | ||
| Papad Industry | ||
| Public Works Department | ||
| Public Motor Transport | ||
| Preparation of Soil, Land Development and other Agricultural Operations | ||
| Plantation of Silk Worm Food Plants for Silk Worms | ||
| Private Motor Transport | ||
| Printing Presses/ Lithography, Photography or other similar work | ||
| Power Loom Industry | ||
| Petrol Bunks/Petrol, Diesel Oil Pumps | ||
| Potteries / Ceramics / Fire Bricks | ||
| Plastic Industry | ||
| Plucking and Collection of Tendu Leaves | ||
| Paper and Paper Board | ||
| P.W.D. (Public Health) | ||
| Packing Industry | ||
| Plantations (Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cardamom, Cinchona etc.) | ||
| Plywood Industry | ||
| P.W.D. (Irrigation) | ||
| Pulp and Paper, Paper Board and Card Board Manufactory | ||
| Private Ferries and L.T.C. | ||
| Quartz Mines | ||
| Quartzite Mines | ||
| Red Oxide Mines | ||
| Rock Phosphate Mines | ||
| Rosin and Dterpentine Products | ||
| Readymade Garments | ||
| Religiious and Social Institutions | ||
| Rolling of Iron Rods, Plates and Angles, etc. | ||
| Rubber & Rubber Products | ||
| Rural Development Department sponsored Employment Generation Scheme (Jawahar Rojgar Yojana) | ||
| Rags Cleaning & Sorting | ||
| Sale of Medicines | ||
| Salt Industry | ||
| Soft Drinks/Aerated Water/Beverages/Juices | ||
| Stone Breaking & Stone Crushing | ||
| Salt Pans | ||
| Stone Mines | ||
| Starch Manufacturing | ||
| Shops & Commercial Establishments | ||
| Any Shopor Commercial Establishment other than covered under any of the entries in the schedule | ||
| Shops Selling Cooked Food Stuff | ||
| Small Scale Industry | ||
| Sericulture | ||
| Saw Mills | ||
| Soap / Detergent Making | ||
| Soap Stone Factories | ||
| Sugar Pan Industry | ||
| Scientific Industry | ||
| Security Agencies (Private)/Watch and Ward | ||
| Spinning, Knitting, Printing, Dyeing Finishing, Bleaching of Silk Pina Fibre/Silk Industry | ||
| STD, ISD, PCO and Allied Services | ||
| Steatite Mines | ||
| Silica Mines | ||
| Silicate Works | ||
| Sindur and Rang Manufacturing | ||
| Surgicaland Clinical Instruments Making Industry | ||
| Sweet Industry | ||
| Sweeping & Sanitation Works/Safai Karamcharis | ||
| Slate Mines | ||
| Steel Fabrication and Concerte Products | ||
| Steel Almirah, Tables, Chairs and Steel Furniture | ||
| Superior Kerosene etc. | ||
| Tent dealers Establishments | ||
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | ||
| Teaching Institutions (Private) | ||
| Textile Processing | ||
| Tobacco (including Bidi Making) | ||
| Tiles and Potteries | ||
| Tyre Retreading & Repairing Industry | ||
| Textile Industry | ||
| Textile Printing | ||
| Tubewell Drilling Operations | ||
| Tailoring, Stitching and Embroidery | ||
| Timber Trading Industry (including/excluding felling and sawing) | ||
| Trunks/Buckets/Suitcases Manufacturing / Tin Plates Shaping and its Printing etc. | ||
| Tobacco Manufacturing/Eatable Tobacco | ||
| Typewriter Ribbon Industry | ||
| Utensils Manufacturing | ||
| Uranium Mines | ||
| Vegetable and Fruit Shops | ||
| Vegetable Ghee Manufacturing and Vegetable Oil Refining Establishments | ||
| Veneer Industry | ||
| Wolfram Mines | ||
| Woollen Spinning, Knitting and Weaving Factories or Cotton Spinning | ||
| Woollen Carpet Making/ Shawl Weaving Industry | ||
| Woollen Blanket Manufactory | ||
| Wool Cleaning and Pressing Factories | ||
| Wood Working Establishments/ Wood Furniture, Bamboo and Cane Furniture and Fixtures | ||
| Water Supply (Operation, Maintenance of Water Treatment and Distribution System), Sanitation and Drainage | ||
| Wood Carving | ||
| White Clay Mines | ||
