| State-wise Comparative Minimum Wage Rates Prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central and State Spheres in India (As on 31.12.2003) | ||
| Scheduled Employment | Central Sphere/States/UTs | Minimum Wage Rates (Rs.) Per Day |
| Agriculture | ||
| Agricultural Implements, etc. | ||
| Agriculture Farm and Research Stations of Govt. Deptts., University etc. | ||
| Agarbatti | ||
| Appalam Manufacturing | ||
| Asbestos Mines | ||
| Asbestos Cement Factory | ||
| Ashpit Cleaning in Railways | ||
| Automobile Engineering | ||
| Alloy Manufacture | ||
| Ahatas attached to Wine and Liquor Shops | ||
| Ayurvedic/Allopathic & Unani Pharmacies | ||
| Autorickshaw and Taxi | ||
| Bakery / Baking Process including | ||
| Biscuits / Confectionary | ||
| Bamboo Forest Establishments | ||
| Book Selling & Binding | ||
| Barytes Mines | ||
| Bauxite Mines | ||
| Betal Vines | ||
| Bought Leaf Tea Factory | ||
| Brushes & Broom Mfg. Industry | ||
| Building Material & Hardware | ||
| Banks | ||
| Brick Kiln Industry | ||
| Brick / Roof Tiles / Tiles | ||
| Bell Metal and Brass Industry | ||
| Block Rubber Factories | ||
| Canning of Food Stuffs | ||
| Candle Industry | ||
| Casting Industry | ||
| Cable Operator & Allied Service | ||
| Cashew Processing | ||
| Casual Employees | ||
| Carpentary , Blacksmithy and Masonary | ||
| Card / Straw Board Mfg./Card Board Products | ||
| Cement Concrete Pipe etc. | ||
| Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals | ||
| Cement and Cement Products | ||
| Chemicals & Distilleries | ||
| Chemist Shops | ||
| China Clay Mines | ||
| Chromite Mines | ||
| Cinema | ||
| Clay Pottery | ||
| Clubs & Canteens | ||
| Coconut & Cashew Garden | ||
| Coconut Peeling | ||
| Coffee Curing Works | ||
| Colour Printing/Dyeing | ||
| Coir Manufacturing | ||
| Construction/ Maintenance of Building & Roads | ||
| Construction & Maintenance of Runways / Railways | ||
| Contractor Establishments | ||
| Cotton Waste Spinning | ||
| Cotton Carpet Weaving Estts. | ||
| Computer & Hardware Industry and Services | ||
| Chicken Works | ||
| Colleges and Research Stations under the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University & Agricultural Farms maintained by Agricultural and Horticultural and other Govt. Departments | ||
| Coke (Fuel) | ||
| Crape Mills(Rubber) | ||
| Copper Mines | ||
| Cosmetics Industry | ||
| Construction of Dams, etc. | ||
| Cotton Ginning and Pressing | ||
| Cardamom Malaise and Cardamom | ||
| Gardens | ||
| Co-operative Credit Societies / Marketing Societies | ||
| Cold Storage | ||
| Collection of River Sand | ||
| Cotton Dyeing, Printing & Washing Factories | ||
| Dairy and Dairy Products | ||
| Dal / Flour / Rice Mills | ||
| Dispensaries | ||
| Distilleries & Breweries | ||
| Dolomite Mines | ||
| Drying of Coconut for making copra | ||
| Electronic/Electric Industry | ||
| Electricity Board | ||
| Electricity Generation and Distribution | ||
| Electroplating / Buffing / Polishing | ||
| Employment in Sale & Promotion of Pharmaceutical Products | ||
| Employment in Laying of Under-ground Cables, Electric Lines, Water Supply Lines | ||
| Employment in Dharamshalas | ||
| Employment in Other Manufacturing | ||
| Industries | ||
| Employment in registered Factories not elsewhere classified | ||
| Employment in Draught Works | ||
| Elephants Handling | ||
| Establishments defined under | ||
| Section 2(1)(VIII) of Punjab shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 | ||
| Fertilizers (Chemical) | ||
| Felspar Mines | ||
| Film Production / Motion Picture Industry / Film Distribution, etc. | ||
| Fire Clay Mines | ||
| Food Processing | ||
| Fisheries & Sea Food | ||
| Forestry /Timbering Operations & Social Forestry | ||
| Forest Department ContractorEstablishments | ||
| Fish Peeling and Fish Canning, etc. | ||
| Foundries | ||
| Fruit Preservation / Juice Extraction | ||
| Finishing and Dyeing of Yarn and Fabric Painting | ||
| Florescent Tube and Electric Bulb Industry | ||
| Forest Produce | ||
| General Engineering | ||
| Glass Industry | ||
| Grass Cutting | ||
| Granite Mines Industry | ||
| Graphite Mines and Graphite Industries | ||
| Gold / Silver Covering, Gold | ||
| Casting and Ornaments | ||
| Govt. Offices contingency & works | ||
| Gota Kinari Industry | ||
| Gunny Industry | ||
| Glass Sheets / Glass Product Manufacturing | ||
| Gypsum Mines | ||
| Gravel Mines | ||
| Hair Cutting Saloon | ||
| Hematite Mines | ||
| Hosiery | ||
| Hostels | ||
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes | ||
| Hotels and Restaurants | ||
| Handloom Silk Weaving Establishments | ||
| Handloom Weaving | ||
| Horticulture | ||
| Hill Produce Industry | ||
| Harbour Works | ||
| Ice Factory and Cold Storage | ||
| Ice Cream / Ice Candy | ||
| Irrigation Works | ||
| Iron Ore Mine | ||
| Industrial Establishments | ||
| Indigenous Sugar, Boora, Khandsary and Gur etc. | ||
| Jawahar Rojgar Yojana | ||
| Jute and Coir Industry | ||
| Jute Patty | ||
| Khadi & Village Industry | ||
| Khandsari / Sugar | ||
| Kyanite Mines | ||
| Lac Manufacturing | ||
| Leterite Mines | ||
| Laundries / Dry Washing /Dyeing | ||
| LPG | ||
| Leather Goods / Shoe Industry | ||
| Loading and Unloading (in Ports, Docks & Railways Goods Sheds, etc.) | ||
| Lime Stone Kilns | ||
| Libraries | ||
| Liquor Trading & Vending | ||
| Lignite Mines | ||
| Local Authority | ||
| Lakshadweep Development Corporation | ||
| Light Motor Vehical | ||
| Load Carrying | ||
| Marble Mines | ||
| Match, Fire Works & Explosives | ||
| Mica Works / Mica Mines | ||
| Minor Engineering Industry | ||
| Metal Rolling / Re-rolling (Non-Ferrous) | ||
| Metal Rolling & Re-rolling (Ferrous) | ||
| Metal Industry | ||
| Meat Selling | ||
| Motor Body Builders / Mechanical Workshops | ||
| Minor Ports | ||
| Mosaic Tiles Flooring / Glazing Tiles Manufacturing Industry | ||
| Mini & Tiny Cement Factories | ||
| Medical Equipment Shops | ||
| Mines and Minerals | ||
| Manufacture of Radio by Assembling of Parts | ||
| Medical and Sales Representatives | ||
| Manufacture of Electronic Goods and Sales etc. | ||
| Non-Govt. Organisations | ||
| Manufacture of Bulbs | ||
| Nails and Pins Manufacturing | ||
| Neera Tapping | ||
| Magnetite Mines | ||
| Megnesite Mines | ||
| Manganese Mines | ||
| Oil Mills | ||
| Oil Palm Plantation | ||
| Ochre Mines | ||
| Other Manufacturing Process Covered under Section2K of the Factories Act,1948 | ||
| Pharmaceutical Industry | ||
| Public Works Department | ||
| Public Motor Transport | ||
| Panchayat | ||
| Private Transport/ Motor Transport | ||
| Printing Presses | ||
| Printing Presses (by lithography, | ||
| Photography or other similar work) | ||
| Power Loom Industry | ||
| Petrol Bunks | ||
| Petrol / Diesel Pumps | ||
| Photographic and Optical Goods | ||
| Private Finance Corporation and | ||
| Chit Funds | ||
| Poultry Farming | ||
| Potteries / Ceramics / Fire Bricks | ||
| Plastic Industry | ||
| Pulp and Paper Industry / Paper Products | ||
| Procurement and Processing and Distribution of Milk | ||
| P.W.D. (Public Health) | ||
| Packing Industry | ||
| Plantations (Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cinchona etc.) | ||
| Polythene / Foam Processing, etc. | ||
| Polyurethene / Foam Processing | ||
| Professional such as chartered Accountants, Auditors etc. | ||
| Plywood Industry | ||
| Paints and Varnishes | ||
| Papad Udyog | ||
| P.W.D.(Irrigation) | ||
| Paper Board and Straw Board | ||
| Private Presses | ||
| Quartzite Mines | ||
| Red Oxide Mines | ||
| Rock Phosphate Mines | ||
| Rope Industry | ||
| Readymade Garments | ||
| Refracting Units / Fire Bricks and Ceramics Industry | ||
| Rubber & Rubber Products | ||
| Rag Cleaning & Sorting | ||
| Rexine Cloth | ||
| Sea Food Processing | ||
| Soft Drinks / Aerated Water / Beverages / Juices | ||
| Spinning Mills | ||
| Stone Breaking & Crushing | ||
| Salt Pans | ||
| Stone Mines | ||
| Shops & Commercial Establishments | ||
| Slate Factories | ||
| Steel Mills | ||
| Small Scale Industry | ||
| Sericulture | ||
| Saw Mills | ||
| Soap Making / Detergent Making | ||
| Soap Stone Factories | ||
| Sugar / Sugar Pan Industry | ||
| Scientific Industry | ||
| Sports Goods | ||
| Sago Industry | ||
| Security Agencies (Private) | ||
| Soil Conservation | ||
| Steel Almirah, Tables, Chairs and Other Steel Furniture Industry | ||
| Spinning, Weaving, Printing, Dyeing Finishing, Bleaching of Silk & Pina Fibre | ||
| Seed Processing Unit | ||
| STD, ISD & PCO | ||
| Silk Twisting/ Silk Industry | ||
| Steatite Mines | ||
| Silica Mines | ||
| Sal Seeds Collection | ||
| Siali Leave Plucker | ||
| Sweetmeat Shops | ||
| Sweeper & Sanitation | ||
| Slate Mines | ||
| Starch Manufacturing | ||
| Surgical & Clinical Instruments Making | ||
| Steel Febrication and Concerte Products | ||
| Superior Kerosene etc. | ||
| Tendu Leaf Collection and Precessing | ||
| Tent dealers, Household Goods | ||
| Tamarind Collection | ||
| Travel Goods Like Suit Cases, Bags etc. | ||
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | ||
| Teaching Institutions (Private) | ||
| Tobacco (including Bidi Making) | ||
| Toddy Tapping | ||
| Tiles and Potteries | ||
| Tyre Services | ||
| Textile | ||
| Textile Printing | ||
| Tubewell Drilling Operations | ||
| Tailoring, Stitching and Embroidery Timber Trading / Industry | ||
| Tin Container (Trunks) / Buckets Manufacturing / Tin Plates etc. | ||
| Tin Plate shaping & Printing | ||
| Tobacco (eating & chewing) Processing, Scented & Snuff Establishments | ||
| Tobacco Manufacturing | ||
| Timber Depot Industry | ||
| Typewriter Ribbon Industry | ||
| Utencils Shops / Manufacturing Units | ||
| Umbrella Manufacturing | ||
| Uranium Mines | ||
| Vegetable and Fruit Shops | ||
| Vegetable Ghee Manufacturing | ||
| Veterinary & Animal Husbandry | ||
| Veneer Industry | ||
| Watch & Ward | ||
| Wolfram | ||
| Woollen Spinning and Weaving Factories | ||
| Woollen Carpet Making/ Shawl Weaving Industry | ||
| Woollen Blanket | ||
| Wool Cleaning and Pressing Factories | ||
| Wood Working Establishments | ||
| Watch Manufacturing | ||
| Wood Carving | ||
| White Clay Mines | ||
