Order No. 229
Andaman and Nicobar minimum rates of wages, Order No. 229 of 29.06.2026, with effect from 1 July 2026
- Notification number
- Order No. 229
- Issued for
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Date
- 29 June 2026
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
The Lt. Governor (Administrator)'s six-monthly revision, declared under section 7 of the Code on Wages, 2019 read with section 2(w), on the average All India Consumer Price Index for October 2025 to March 2026. Daily rates only and no zones: Rs. 660 unskilled, Rs. 741 semi-skilled or unskilled supervisory, Rs. 864 skilled or clerical and Rs. 947 highly skilled, each Rs. 8 more than the order of 5 December 2025. Declared across all employments of the Union territory, where its predecessor covered the six schedules of employment.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Minimum wages · Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Authority
- The Lt. Governor (Administrator), A&N Islands, on power delegated by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India by Notification No. LP 24(1) dated 16 March 1949, through the Office of the Labour Commissioner
- Basis.Index
- The average All India Consumer Price Index for October 2025 to March 2026
- Basis.Law
- Section 7 of the Code on Wages, 2019 read with Section 2(w). The order recites that on the Code's implementation w.e.f. 21.11.2025 the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was subsumed into it
- Date
- 29 June 2026
- Highly.Day
- 947
- Period
- 1 July 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Scope
- Across all Employments of the Union Territory of A & N Islands, in addition to Govt. Departments/ Offices/ Industrial Establishments
- Semi.Day
- 741
- Skilled.Day
- 864
- Terms.Carried
- The other terms and conditions of Notification No. 133/2023/F dated 27.12.2023 remain unchanged
- Unskilled.Day
- 660
- Zones
- None. One set of rates covers the whole Union territory