Bihar minimum wage notification No. 5/M.W.-40-16/2021, Shram No. 46, Patna, 1 April 2026 - variable dearness allowance with effect from 1 April 2026
- Notification number
- None — this document carries no number
- Issued for
- Bihar
- Date
- 1 April 2026
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
Revises the variable dearness allowance under section 5 read with section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 on the July-December 2025 index average of 9,696.44. Schedule-II fixes the daily rate across 89 scheduled employments at Rs. 436 unskilled, Rs. 452 semi-skilled, Rs. 551 skilled and Rs. 672 highly skilled, with a month the day times 26 and, for domestic employments, an hour the day divided by 8. Schedule-III fixes about 130 piece rates for 12 further employments. The Hindi and English texts disagree on seven figures in Schedule-III.
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 · Bihar.
- Base.Notification
- Notification (58,59) dated 23.09.2025, published in Bihar Gazette No. 1560 dated 24.09.2025
- Basis.Index
- Average All India Consumer Price Index (base 1960=100) for July to December 2025 of 9,696.44, on a link factor of 4.63 x 4.93 x 2.88
- Basis.Law
- Section 5 read with section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948
- Conversion.Hour
- For domestic employments, the notified daily rate divided by 8
- Conversion.Month
- The daily rate multiplied by 26
- Date
- 1 April 2026
- Equal.Pay
- Male and female workers receive the same rate for the same work or similar type of work
- Floor
- If the index falls below the point at which the rates were determined, no change is made to the determined rates
- Highly.Day
- 672
- Overtime
- Twice the wages, at the rate prescribed in rule 25 of the Bihar Minimum Wages Rules, 1951
- Period
- 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026
- Rest.Day
- The rates include the remuneration payable for the day of rest in a period of seven days
- Schedule.2.Heading
- Schedule-II is headed 'effective from the date 01.10.2025' while its own column 5 is headed 01.04.2026
- Schedule.3
- About 130 piece rates across 12 scheduled employments, charged against output rather than time
- Scope
- 89 scheduled employments under Schedule-1(b), and 12 further employments on piece rates under Schedule-III
- Semi.Day
- 452
- Skilled.Day
- 551
- Text.Variance
- The Hindi and English texts of this notification disagree on seven figures within Schedule-III, one of which is a unit rather than an amount
- Unskilled.Day
- 436
- Women.Earth.Cutting
- A fifteen per cent lower earth-cutting quota for women workers, at the same wage
- Zones
- None. One set of rates covers the whole State