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| Name of the Scheduled Employments | Area | Category of worker- skill wise | |||
| Unskilled | Semi-skilled | Skilled | Highly Skilled | ||
| Total Minimum Wages per month (In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | ||
| Agriculture | WB | 5839.00 (225)(without food) | 6423.00 (247.00) (without food) | 7067.00 (272.00) (without food) | - |
| 5839.00 (209.00) (with food) | 6423.00 (231.00) with food) | 7067.00 (256.00) with food) | |||
| Bakery | ZONE A | 7345.00 | |||
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | ||||
| Beedi Leaf Plucking | WB | 5347.00 (206.00) | 5882 (226.23) | 6471 (248.88) | |
| Bell Metal and Brass Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Bone Meal Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Brick manufacturing | Calcutta | 5839 (without accomodation | 6423 (without accomodation | 7067 (without accomodation | |
| 5548 (with accomodation) | 6103 (with accomodation) | 6712 (with accomodation) | |||
| Ceramic Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Chakki Mills | ZONE A | 7230.00 | 7954.00 | 8750.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Cinchona Plantation | WB | 5839.00 | |||
| Chartered Accountants, Auditors etc Firms | Calcutta | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| Cigarette Manufacturing | RATES ARE GOVERNED BY AGREEMENTS | ||||
| Cinema Industry (cinema house exhibition) | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| Cinema Industry (production side) | WB | 3906.25 (150.24) | 4046.77 (155.65) | 4161.83 (160) | |
| Cinema Industry (distribution side) | WB | 3906.25 (150.24) (Peon etc.) | 3995.6 (153.67)(Clerks etc.) | 4016.38 (154.47) (Stenographer) | |
| Cold Storage | Minimum rates of wages are not yet fixed. | ||||
| Clinical Nursing Home | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| Construction & Maintenance of Road or building operation | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| Dal Mills | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Decoration | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Fishery | WB | 5839.00 | |||
| Flour Mills | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| Forestry or Timber Operation | WB | 5839.00 | |||
| Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Glass Industry | WB | 6112.00 | 6132.00 | 6182.00 | 6237.00 |
| Godown(WB) | ZONE A | 7345.00 | - | - | - |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | ||||
| Handloom | WB | 5839.00 | - | - | - |
| Hosiery Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Hotel and Restaurant | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| 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 | 5839.00 | 6423.00 | 7067.00 | |
| Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona | WB | 5347.00(206.00) | |||
| Oil Mills | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Paints & Chemicals Factories | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | 9777.00 |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | 8830.00 | |
| Paper Board & straw Board Mfg. Industry | ZONE A | ||||
| ZONE B | - | ||||
| Plastic Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Plywood Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Power Loom (Less than 10 person) | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Power Loom (10 or more person) | ZONE A | ||||
| ZONE B | - | ||||
| Printing Press | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Public Motor Transport | WB | 6846.00(Cleaner & Lorry Coolies) | 6899.00(Conductor) | 6907.00(Fitters and Time Keepers) | 6978.00 (Drivers and Mechanics) |
| Refractory Industry | WB | 6166.00 | 6226.00 | 6286.00 | 6346.00 |
| Rice Mills | WB | 5839.00 | 6423.00 | 7067.00 | 7774.00 |
| Rope Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Rubber & Rubber Products | Calcutta | 5864.00 | 5875.00 | 5901.00 | |
| Howrah & hoogly | 5179.00 | 5190.00 | 5216.00 | ||
| Burdwan | 5826.00 | 5837.00 | 5863.00 | ||
| Darjeeling, except Siliguri SubDivn. |
4369.00 | 4380.00 | 4406.00 | ||
| Jalpaigur, Coochbe har & Siliguri SubDivn. |
4303.00 | 4314.00 | 4340.00 | ||
| Bankura, Midnapo re & Purulia | 5144.00 | 5155.00 | 5181.00 | ||
| Birbhum | 5134.00 | 5145.00 | 5171.00 | ||
| Nadia & Murshida bad | 5019.00 | 5030.00 | 5056.00 | ||
| Malda, Uttar Dinajpur & Dakshin Dinajpur | 4930.00 | 4941.00 | 4967.00 | ||
| Salt Manufacturing Industry | WB | 5839.00 | 6423.00 | 7067.00 | 7774.00 |
| Saw Mills | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Sericulture Nursery & Cultivation (B) Silk Spinning And/Or Weaving ( Hand Loom) | WB | 5839.00 | |||
| Security services | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Shoes Making Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Silk Mills | ZONE A | 245 | |||
| ZONE B | 233.65 | ||||
| Silk Printing | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Stone Breaking and Stone crushing | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Sweeping and cleaning excluding activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Tailoring Industry | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | - | |
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | ZONE A | 7345.00 | 8080.00 | 8888.00 | - |
| ZONE B | 6634.00 | 7296.00 | 8026.00 | ||
| Tea Plantation | RATES ARE NOW GOVERNED BY AGREEMENT | ||||
| Tobacco (Beedi Making) | Calcutta | 5869.24 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | |||
| How. Hoog | 5148.00 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | ||||
| Other District | 4943.38 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | ||||
| Tobacco Gowdown | WB | 5839.00 | |||
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. |
Source of information: Labour Department, Government of West Bengal