Jharkhand Minimum Wage Notification

October 2020 to March 2021

The Government of Jharkhand vide Notification No-2/MW-2071/2010, L&T-1310 has released the Minimum Wages effective from 1st October 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section-3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (XI of 1948), the Governor of Jharkhand is pleased to declare that the consumer price index number applicable to the employees employed in employments mentioned in column-2 of the schedule below here appended (herein after referred to as the scheduled employment) for the months shown in column-3 of the said schedule shall be as shown in column-4 of the schedule for the purpose of clause (d) of section-2 of the said Act

Class of Employment	Basic Per Day	Basic Per Month	VDA Per Day	VDA Per Month	Total Per Day	Total Per Month
Unskilled	274.81	7145.06	25.55	664.3	300.36	7809.36
Semi-skilled	287.9	7485.4	26.77	696.02	314.67	8181.42
Skilled/Clerical	379.51	9867.26	35.29	917.54	414.8	10784.8
Highly Skilled	438.39	11398.14	40.77	1060.02	479.16	12458.16

The rates of variable dearness allowance will be based on the average of all India Consumer Price Index on which the minimum rates of wages have been fixed/revised in the above schedule employments. There will be increase or decrease in wage of rates shown in column-4 with rise or fall as the case may be in aforesaid Index of the above schedule employments and it will be deemed as variable dearness allowance component. But even if index falls below the points on which minimum rates of wages have been fixed/revised, there will not be any reduction in the minimum wages fixed/revised.

The payment of variable dearness allowance on the basis of average Consumer Price Index of January -June,2020, which is 1st half of 2020, will be payable [No-2/MW-2071/2010 L&T-1310 Ranchi, Dated 23 | 12820]

By Order of the Governor of Jharkhand,

Jharkhand Minimum Wage Notification, below exhibit