With the beginning of the new financial year, the has revised minimum daily wages of unskilled, semi skilled, skilled and highly-skilled labourers.
According to an official notification issued by the State Labour Commissioner Dr N Thirumala Naik, the daily wages of the labourers have been increased by hiking their Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) by Rs 12.
With the hike in VDA, the minimum daily wages for unskilled, semi skilled, skilled, and highly skilled workers have been increased to Rs 345, Rs 385, Rs 435 and Rs 495, respectively, with effect from April 1, 2023.
The State Government has been revising the daily wages as per the advice of State Minimum Wages Advisory Board, which had asked the State to adopt a system of revision of the special allowance called VDA @ 0.90 per point rise in the Consumer Price Index Number for industrial workers (base 2001-100) as admissible and shall be declared at half yearly interval (April 1 and October 1) from the date of notification of revised wages, starting from April 1, 2019.