E-238621/703
Notification No. E-238621/703 of 17 June 2026, Labour Welfare Department, Wages Branch, Government of Assam - variable dearness allowance with effect from 1 January 2026
- Notification number
- E-238621/703
- Issued for
- Assam
- Date
- 17 June 2026
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
Fixes the dearness allowance from 1 January 2026 on a rise of 3.78 index points, stated as 2.63 per cent of basic. Monthly totals of Rs. 10,543.39, Rs. 12,257.43, Rs. 15,322.74 and Rs. 19,709.98, or Rs. 405.52, Rs. 471.44, Rs. 589.34 and Rs. 758.08 a day on the notification's own division by twenty-six. No zones; one table across three lists of scheduled employments.
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 · Assam.
- Authority
- Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, Labour Welfare Department
- Basic.Month
- Rs. 7,200 unskilled, Rs. 8,400 semi-skilled or unskilled supervisory, Rs. 10,500 skilled or clerical, Rs. 13,500 highly skilled
- Basis.Index
- A rise of 3.78 points, stated as 2.63 per cent, on the average All India General Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (base 2016=100) for June 2025 to December 2025 over the average for December 2024 to May 2025
- Basis.Law
- Minimum Wages Act, 1948
- Continues
- Notification No. E-238621/700 dated 13 February 2026, which fixed the allowance from 1 June 2025
- Conversion
- The monthly rate divided by 26 gives the daily rate
- Date
- 17 June 2026, effective 1 January 2026
- Highly.Day
- 758.08
- Highly.Month
- 19709.98
- Other.Streams
- Assam fixes wages separately for plantations, for loading and unloading urea bags, and for medical representatives and other pharmaceutical work
- Publication.Lag
- Dated 17 June 2026 for wages effective 1 January 2026; the previous order was dated 13 February 2026 for wages effective 1 June 2025
- Scope
- Three lists of scheduled employments, of which the first names shops, commercial establishments, eating houses and restaurants
- Semi.Day
- 471.44
- Semi.Month
- 12257.43
- Skilled.Day
- 589.34
- Skilled.Month
- 15322.74
- Text.Variance
- The highly skilled cumulated allowance is printed as Rs. 5,854.93 but chains from the previous notification to Rs. 5,844.93 - a difference of exactly ten rupees
- Unskilled.Day
- 405.52
- Unskilled.Month
- 10543.39
- VDA.Cumulated
- Rs. 3,154.03 unskilled, Rs. 3,636.51 semi-skilled, Rs. 4,546.59 skilled, Rs. 5,854.93 highly skilled
- Zones
- None. One table covers the whole State