6445-6650
Madhya Pradesh minimum wages including variable dearness allowance, 1 April to 30 September 2026 — Labour Commissioner notification 6445-6650 of 31.03.2026
- Notification number
- 6445-6650
- Issued for
- Madhya Pradesh
- Date
- 31 March 2026
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
The Labour Commissioner's six-monthly revision of minimum wages including the variable dearness allowance, for 1 April to 30 September 2026. One statewide table for 67 scheduled employments: ₹12,425 unskilled, ₹13,421 semi-skilled, ₹15,144 skilled and ₹16,769 highly skilled a month, each a basic rate plus a flat allowance of ₹2,850, with daily rates of ₹478, ₹516, ₹582 and ₹645 after the State's rounding rule. Separate schedules cover slate-pencil works, printing presses, agriculture, government daily-wagers, bidi, agarbatti and three employments added under a High Court order.
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 · Madhya Pradesh.
- Allowance
- A flat ₹2,850 a month for every grade. The earlier differential of ₹1,450 for unskilled and ₹1,750 for the other grades was folded into the basic rates by the notification of 4 March 2024.
- Highly.Basic.Month
- 13919
- Highly.Day
- 644.97
- Highly.Month
- 16769
- Highly.Rounded.Day
- 645
- Index
- The six-monthly average All India Consumer Price Index for July to December 2025 was 425, eleven points above the 414 used for the previous half-year.
- Other Employments
- Separate rates are set for slate-pencil works, printing presses, agriculture (₹10,012 a month on a 30-day basis), daily-wage workers in government departments (the same monthly figures on a 30-day basis), bidi by the thousand, agarbatti by the thousand, and three employments added under the High Court's order in WP 10772/2024.
- Period
- 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026, as the notification states on its face.
- Rounding
- 50 paise or more rounds up to the next rupee and less is dropped, per the Minimum Wages Advisory Board of 20.6.2006 and Finance Department circular F 9-79-7/2006 of 20.9.2006.
- Scope
- The table applies to the scheduled employments at serial numbers 1 to 36, 39 to 55, 57 to 66, 68 and 70 to 72 — 67 in all. The notification identifies them by serial number only and does not name them.
- Semi.Basic.Month
- 10571
- Semi.Day
- 516.20
- Semi.Month
- 13421
- Semi.Rounded.Day
- 516
- Skilled.Basic.Month
- 12294
- Skilled.Day
- 582.47
- Skilled.Month
- 15144
- Skilled.Rounded.Day
- 582
- Unskilled.Basic.Month
- 9575
- Unskilled.Day
- 477.89
- Unskilled.Month
- 12425
- Unskilled.Rounded.Day
- 478
- Zones
- None. One table applies across the whole State.