Jharkhand minimum wage notification No. 2/M.W.-2071/2010 (Part-3), L&T-742, Ranchi, 25 May 2026 - variable dearness allowance with effect from 1 April 2026

What it says

Revises the allowance under section 6(1) of the Code on Wages, 2019 at ten per cent on the July-December 2025 index average of 147.5, converted to 425 against a baseline of 386. Three area classes and four grades, published as both a daily and a monthly table which do not reconcile by twenty-six. No scheduled employments are named. The Hindi and English texts disagree on Class C's unskilled daily rate, 468 against 467.

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 · Jharkhand.

Baseline.Discrepancy

Note (a) calls 386 the price index of June 2023 while the body of the same notification calls it the average for January to June 2023

Basic.From

11 March 2024

Basis.Index

Average All India Consumer Price Index of 147.5 for July to December 2025, converted to 425 on a factor of 2.88, against a baseline of 386 - a rise of 39 points or 10.10 per cent, applied as 10 per cent

Basis.Law

Sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Code on Wages, 2019 (29 of 2019)

Cadence.Gap

The daily and monthly tables do not reconcile by 26: 515 a day in Class A is 13,385 a month, where 515 x 26 is 13,390

Date

25 May 2026, effective 1 April 2026

Equal.Pay

Male or female workers get the same rate of wages for the same or similar work

Floor

If the index falls below the point at which the allowance was fixed, the allowance is not reduced

Highly.Day · A

821

Highly.Day

821

Highly.Day

783

Highly.Day

746

Highly.Day · B

783

Highly.Day · C

746

Highly.Month

21336

Highly.Month · C

19391

Highly.Month · A

21336

Highly.Month

20363

Highly.Month

19391

Highly.Month · B

20363

Overtime

An employee who works on the weekly rest day is entitled to overtime at the rate prescribed in rule 25 of the Minimum Wages Rules, 1951

Rest.Day

The rates include the remuneration payable for the day of rest in a period of seven days

Rounding

The Variable Dearness Allowance is rounded off to whole numbers by agreement of the Jharkhand Minimum Wages Advisory Board

Scope

No scheduled employments are named. The rates vary only by area and by skill

Semi.Day · A

540

Semi.Day

491

Semi.Day

540

Semi.Day · B

515

Semi.Day

515

Semi.Day · C

491

Semi.Month

12756

Semi.Month

13385

Semi.Month

14043

Semi.Month · B

13385

Semi.Month · A

14043

Semi.Month · C

12756

Skilled.Day · A

712

Skilled.Day

679

Skilled.Day

647

Skilled.Day · B

679

Skilled.Day

712

Skilled.Day · C

647

Skilled.Month

16817

Skilled.Month · B

17646

Skilled.Month

17646

Skilled.Month

18504

Skilled.Month · A

18504

Skilled.Month · C

16817

Streams

Jharkhand runs three wage streams on three different basic-rate dates: time rates from 11.03.2024, piece rates from 13.09.2024 and contract labour from 28.06.2024

Text.Variance

The Hindi and English texts disagree on Class C's unskilled daily rate - 468 against 467 - and on the notification's own number, 742 against 743

Unskilled.Day

468 in the Hindi text and 467 in the English

Unskilled.Day · B

491

Unskilled.Day

491

Unskilled.Day

515

Unskilled.Day · C

468 in the Hindi text and 467 in the English

Unskilled.Day · A

515

Unskilled.Month · B

12756

Unskilled.Month · C

12155

Unskilled.Month

12756

Unskilled.Month · A

13385

Unskilled.Month

13385

Unskilled.Month

12155

Zones

Three. Class A is the Ranchi, Chas, Dhanbad, Deoghar and Hazaribagh Municipal Corporations with the Jamshedpur Notified Area, Mango Municipal Corporation, Jugsalai Nagar Parishad and Adityapur Municipal Corporation; Class B is the urban local body areas of all other districts; Class C is the rest of the State

Where this is cited

• Minimum wages · Jharkhand