| State-wise Comparative Minimum Wage Rates Prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central and State Spheres in India (As on 31.12.1998) | ||
| Scheduled Employment | Central Sphere/States/UTs | Minimum Wage Rates (Rs.) Per Day |
| Agriculture | ||
| Alloy Manufacture | ||
| Agarwood Industry | ||
| Ahatas and Wine Shop | ||
| Applam Manufacturing | ||
| Arms and Ammunition/Gun Factory | ||
| Asbestos Mines | ||
| Autorickshaw and Taxi | ||
| Ayurvedic/Alloepathic and Unani Pharmacies | ||
| Agriculture Implements, Machine Tools etc. | ||
| Aluminum Industry | ||
| Baking Process Including Biscuits | ||
| Bamboo Forest Organisation | ||
| Book Selling and Binding | ||
| Barytes Mines | ||
| Bauxite Mines | ||
| Betel Vines | ||
| Blanket Manufacturing | ||
| Bobbin Industry | ||
| Bone Crushing Industry | ||
| Bought Leaf Tea Factory | ||
| Brass, Copper and Aluminum Items Manufacturing | ||
| Brick Kin Industry | ||
| Brushes and Broom Mfg. | ||
| Building Material | ||
| Private Finance/Chit Funds | ||
| Candle Industry | ||
| Canvas Industry | ||
| Cardamum Malis in Gardens | ||
| Carpet/Cotton Waste Weaving | ||
| Cashew Processing | ||
| Casual Employees | ||
| Carpentry, Blacksmith and Masonary | ||
| Card/Straw Board Mfg./Card Board Products | ||
| Catechu (Katha) Industry | ||
| Cement/Concrete Pipe, Mini Cement etc | ||
| Chemical and Pharmaceuticals | ||
| Chakki Mills | ||
| Chemist Shop | ||
| China Clay Mines | ||
| Chormite Mines | ||
| Cinema | ||
| Clay Mines | ||
| Clubs and Canteens | ||
| Coconut and Cashew Garden | ||
| Coffee Curing Works | ||
| Colour Printing/Dyeing | ||
| Coir Manufacturing | ||
| Construction/Maintenance of Roads and Building Operations | ||
| Construction and Maintenance of Runways | ||
| Contractor Estt | ||
| Chicken Works | ||
| Coke (Fuel) | ||
| Crepe Mills (Rubber) | ||
| Copper Mines | ||
| Cosmetics Industry | ||
| Construction of Dams | ||
| Cotton Ginning and Pressing | ||
| Co-operative Credit Societies/Marketing Societies | ||
| Confectioneries | ||
| Dal/Flour/Rice Mills | ||
| Dharamshalla | ||
| Decoration | ||
| Dispensaries | ||
| General Engineering | ||
| Distilleries and Breweries | ||
| Glass Industry | ||
| Dolomite Mines | ||
| Electronic/Electric Industry | ||
| Electricity Generation and Distribution | ||
| Exercise Book Manufacturing | ||
| Electroplating/Buffing/Polishing | ||
| Elephants Handling | ||
| Earth Excavation | ||
| Famine Relief Works | ||
| Fertilizer | ||
| Felspar Mines | ||
| Film Production/Motion Picture Industry | ||
| Footwear and Travel Goods | ||
| Fountain Pen Manufacturing | ||
| Fire Clay Mines | ||
| Food Processing | ||
| Fisheries and Sea Food | ||
| Forestry and Timbering Operations, Social Forestry | ||
| Forest Department Contractor Establishments | ||
| Foundries | ||
| Fruit Preservation/Juice | ||
| General Engineering | ||
| Geru Manufactory | ||
| Glass Bulb Manufactory | ||
| Glass Industry | ||
| Grass/Wood Cutting | ||
| Granite Mines | ||
| Graphite Mines and Graphite Industry | ||
| Gold Covering, Gold Casting and Ornaments. | ||
| Gota Kinari Industry | ||
| Gunny Industry | ||
| Glass Sheets Manufacturing | ||
| Gypsum Mines | ||
| Glass Bangles Manufactory | ||
| Hair Cutting Saloon | ||
| Hematite Mines | ||
| Hosieries | ||
| Marble Mines | ||
| Match, Fire Works & Explosives | ||
| Hotels | ||
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes | ||
| Health Department (Seasonal Spray Squads) | ||
| Hard Coke Ovens | ||
| Hotels and Restaurants | ||
| Handloom Weaving | ||
| Horticulture | ||
| Household Goods Including Crockery, Tents/Decoration | ||
| High Court and Judiciary Est. | ||
| Harbor Works | ||
| Hydro Electric Projects | ||
| Hill Products | ||
| Ice Factory and Cold Storage | ||
| Ice Cream/Ice Candy | ||
| Irrigation Works | ||
| Iron Ore Mine | ||
| Jari Industry/Embroidery | ||
| Jawahar Yojana | ||
| Khadi and Village Industry | ||
| Khandsari | ||
| Kyanite Mines | ||
| Lac Manufactory | ||
| Laundries/Dry Washing | ||
| Power Loom Industry | ||
| Laterite Mines | ||
| LPG Manufacturing/Distribution | ||
| Leather Goods/Shoe Industry | ||
| Legal Profession etc. | ||
| Loading and Unloading (In Ports, Docks and Railways Good Sheds) | ||
| Lime Kilns | ||
| Libraries | ||
| Liquor Trading and Vending | ||
| Local Authority | ||
| Maintenance of Buildings | ||
| Marble Mines | ||
| Match, Fire Works & Explosives | ||
| Manganese/Magnetite Mines | ||
| Metal Working | ||
| Mica Works/Mica Mines | ||
| Mobile Transport Workshops | ||
| Minor Engineering Industry | ||
| Any Other manufacturing Process Defined under Section 2(k) and 2(m) etc. | ||
| Metal Rolling and Re-rolling (Non-Ferrous) | ||
| Magnetite Mines | ||
| Minor Ports | ||
| Motion Picture Industry | ||
| Motor Body Builders | ||
| Medicine/Chemical Dealers | ||
| Milk (Buffalo/Cow) and Milk Products, Dairy and Dairy Products. | ||
| Private Transport/Motor Transport | ||
| Metal Rolling (Ferrous) | ||
| Meat Selling | ||
| Medical Plants | ||
| Nails and Pins Manufacturing | ||
| Municipal and Town Committees | ||
| Oil Mills | ||
| Optical Frames/Goods Manufacturing | ||
| Ochre Mines | ||
| Onion Cleaning and Storing | ||
| Public Works Dept. | ||
| Public Works Transport | ||
| Printing Presses | ||
| Private Ferries and I.T.C. | ||
| Power Loom Industry | ||
| Petrol Bunks | ||
| Petrol/Diesel Pumps | ||
| Poultry Farming | ||
| Potteries/Ceramics/Fire Bricks | ||
| Plastic Industry | ||
| Pulp and Paper Industry/Paper Products | ||
| P.W.D. (Public Health) | ||
| Packing Industry/Paper Board | ||
| Plantation (Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cinchona etc.) | ||
| Polythene/Foam Processing, etc. | ||
| Professional Such as Chartered Accountants, Auditors, etc. | ||
| Plywood Industry | ||
| Picture Frame Making | ||
| Paints and Varnishes | ||
| Papad Udyog/Appalam | ||
| Poha, Chur-mura, etc. | ||
| P.W.D. Irrigation | ||
| Roof Tiles | ||
| Rope Industry | ||
| Readymade Garments | ||
| Refractoring Units | ||
| Rubber and Rubber Products | ||
| Rubber Bailoons | ||
| Religious and Social Establishments | ||
| Rah Cleaning and Sorting | ||
| Resin and Turpentine Products | ||
| Ramraj or Geru Manufacturing | ||
| Stone Breaking and Crushing | ||
| Stone Mines | ||
| Salt Pans | ||
| Small Miniature Bulb Mfb. | ||
| Shop and Commercial Establishments | ||
| Slate Factory | ||
| Steel Mills | ||
| Small Scale Industry | ||
| Sericulture | ||
| Surgical and Clinical Instruments Making Industry | ||
| Saw Mills | ||
| Soap Making/Detergent Making | ||
| Soap Stone Factory | ||
| Sugar/Sugar Pan Industry | ||
| Scientific Industry | ||
| Stables | ||
| Sweeping and Scavenging | ||
| Seasonal Spray Squads (under Health Dept.) | ||
| Sports Goods | ||
| Spinning Factory (Cotton Wast) | ||
| Steel Almirahs, Trunks Manufacturing Industry and Metel Working | ||
| Starch Manufacturing | ||
| Sago Industry | ||
| Security Agency (Private) | ||
| Soil Conservation | ||
| Tanneries and Leather Manufacturing | ||
| Tobacco (Including Bidi Making) | ||
| Toddy/Neera Tapping | ||
| Tyre Services | ||
| Tiles and Potteries | ||
| Glazing/Mosaic Tiles | ||
| Textile | ||
| Teaching Institutions (Pvt.) | ||
| Theaters | ||
| Tubewell Drilling Operations | ||
| Tailoring Stitching and Embroidery | ||
| Tin Container (Trunks) Manufacturing/ Tin Plates shaping, etc. | ||
| Tobacco (Eating Processing Establishments) | ||
| Quartz Mines | ||
| Quartzite Mines | ||
| Red Oxide Mines | ||
| Rockphosphate Mines | ||
| Silk (Twisting)/Printing | ||
| Silk (Printing) | ||
| Soft Drinks/Aerated Water/Beverage | ||
| Steatite Mines | ||
| Silica Mines | ||
| Steamer Ghat | ||
| Sal Seeds Collection | ||
| Siali Leave Plucker | ||
| Spinning Mills | ||
| Tendu Leaf Collection | ||
| Tamarind Collection | ||
| Shops Selling Cooked Food Stuff | ||
| Sindus and Rang Manufacturing | ||
| Umbrella Manufacturing | ||
| University Education Research Institution | ||
| Uranium Mills | ||
| Veneer Industry | ||
| Vegetable Ghee/Oil Industry | ||
| Veterinary and Animal Husbandry | ||
| Woollen Carpet Making/Shawl Weaving Industry. | ||
| Utencils Shops/Manufacturing | ||
| Wood Working Establishments | ||
| Wood Carving | ||
| Wool Cleaning/Pressing/Baling | ||
| Watch manufacturing | ||
| Watch Straps Manufacturing | ||
| Winding, Wrapping, Beaming, Sizing, Drawing etc. | ||
| Wax Paper/Rexine Clothes Mfg. | ||
| White Clay Mines | ||
| Wolfram Mine | ||
| Hospital Equipment Manufacturing | ||
| Soil Conservation | ||
| Small Scale Industry | ||
| Sweet Meat Shops | ||
| Vegetable and Fruit Shops | ||
