Minimum wages in India 2013: West Bengal Minimum Wages w.e.f July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013
Name of the Scheduled Employments | Area | Category of worker- skill wise | |||
Unskilled | Semi-skilled | Skilled | Highly Skilled | ||
Total Minimum Wages per day (In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per day (In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per day (In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per day (In Rs) | ||
Agriculture | WB | 193 without food | 213 without food | 234without food | - |
179 with food | 199 with food | 220 with food | |||
Bakery | ZONE A | 231 | |||
ZONE B | 220 | ||||
Beedi Leaf Plucking | WB | 193 | 213 | 234 | |
Bell Metal and Brass Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Bone Meal Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | ||
Brick manufacturing | Calcutta | 182 | 185 | 1934 | |
Ceramic Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Chakki Mills | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Cinchona Plantation | WB | 193 | |||
Chartered Accountants, Auditors etc Firms | Calcutta | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
Cigarette Manufacturing | RATES ARE GOVERNED BY AGREEMENTS | ||||
Cinema Industry (cinema house exhibition) | CH | 145.11 | 148 | 148 | |
Cinema Industry (production side) | WB | 145.11 | 148 | 151 | |
Cinema Industry (distribution side) | WB | 145,11 | 148 | 148 | |
Cold Storage | Minimum rates of wages are not yet fixed. | ||||
Clinical Nursing Home | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | 307 |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | 292 | |
Construction & Maintenance of Road or building operation | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | 307 |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | 292 | |
Dal Mills | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | ||
Decoration | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Fishery | WB | 193 | |||
Flour Mills | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | 307 |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | 292 | |
Forestry or Timber Operation | WB | 193 (Adult Worker) | |||
Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry | 231 | 254 | 279 | ||
220 | 242 | 266 | |||
Glass Industry | WB | 188 | 189 | 191 | 193 |
Godown(WB) | ZONE A | 231 | - | - | - |
ZONE B | 220 | ||||
Handloom | WB | 193 | - | - | - |
Hosiery Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Hotel and Restaurant | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | 307 |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | 292 | |
Iron Fuondary | Kolkata High Court in W.P. No.731 of 2012 & GA 221 of 2013 has passed an interim order of restraint on giving effect to Notification No.106-MW/2W-21/2010 dt 04.04.2012 revising Minimum Wages in Iron Foundry | ||||
Lac Manufactures | WB | 193 | 213 | 234 | |
Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona | WB | 193 | |||
Oil Mills | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Paints & Chemicals Factories | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | 307 |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | 292 | |
Paper Board & straw Board Mfg. Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Plastic Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Plywood Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Power Loom (Less than 10 person) | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 267.08 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 251.04 | - | |
Power Loom (10 or more person) | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Printing Press | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | ||
Public Motor Transport | WB | 225.00 (Cleaner & Lorry Coolies) | 227 (Conductor) | 227.35 (Fitters and Time Keepers) | 230 (Drivers and Mechanics) |
Refractory Industry | WB | 193.31 | 196 | 198 | 200 |
Rice Mills | WB | 193 | 213 | 234 | 257 |
Rope Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Rubber and Rubber Products | Calcutta | 188.81 | 189 | 190 | |
Salt Manufacturing Industry | WB | 193 | 213 | 234 | 257 |
Saw Mills | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Sericulture Nursery & Cultivation (B) Silk Spinning And/Or Weaving ( Hand Loom) | WB | 193 | |||
Security services | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Shoes Making Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Silk Mills | ZONE A | 231 | |||
ZONE B | 220 | ||||
Silk Printing | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Stone Breaking and Stone crushing | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Sweeping and cleaning excluding activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Tailoring Industry | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | - | |
Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | ZONE A | 231 | 254 | 279 | - |
ZONE B | 220 | 242 | 266 | ||
Tea Plantation | RATES ARE NOW GOVERNED BY AGREEMENT | ||||
Tobacco (Beedi Making) | Calcutta | 189 | 191 | ||
How. Hoog | 172 | 173 per 1000 beedi rolled | |||
Other District | 170 | 171 | |||
Tobacco Gowdown | WB | 193 |
NOTE:
Area CAL: Indicates rates prescribed for Kolkata, North 24 Pgs & South 24 Pgs only; rates are different in other Districts of WB. | ||||
Area CH :Indicates rates prescribed for Kolkata and Howrah Municipal Corporation. | ||||
Area WB: Indicates rates prescribed for WHOLE OF WEST BENGAL | ||||
For other employments Area under: Zone A: (i) Areas Notified under Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), (ii) Asansol Municipal Corporation, (iii) Durgapur Municipal Corporation, (iv) Siliguri Municipal Corporation,(v) Digha-Shankarpur Development Authority, (vi) Thermal Power Plant areas including Township areas, (vii) All the Municipal areas in different districts (viii) All the Sub-Divisions in the districts of Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan and 24- Parganas (N) [excluding Barasat and Basirhat], (ix) Alipore Sub-Division and Baruipur Sub-Division in the district of 24- Parganas (S), (x) Midnapore Sadar Sub-Division and Kharagpur Sub-Divisionin the district of West Midnapur, (xi) Siliguri Sub-Division in the district of Darjeeling,(xii) Bankura Sub-Division and Bishnupur Sub-Division in the district of Bankura, and (xiii) Raghunathpur Sub-Division in the district of Purulia; Zone A: Rest of West Bengal. | ||||
To arrive at daily rate, monthly rate will have to be divided by 26 and to be rounded off to the nearest rupee, to arrive at weekly rate; daily rate will have to be multiplied by 6; | ||||
A normal working day shall consist of eight and half hours of work including interval for half-an-hour for rest; | ||||
The employment of 'Bakery' includes ' Biscuit manufacturing units' also as per clarification issued by the Labour Depatment, Govt. of W. B. |