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Minimum wages

State, zone, skill — shops vs industrial.

Both zones. Highlighted: Area I — Places in Arunachal Pradesh where Special Compensatory Allowance is payable at the lower rate, and places outside Arunachal Pradesh where workers are employed by or under the authority of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, the zone chosen above.

Per day, fixed with effect from 1 April 2016. Ten years old. These rates come from Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, issued on 1 July 2016 and expressly coming into force from 1 April 2016, in supersession of Notification No. LAB (MW)-02/2010 of 30 April 2014. They were revised on the basis of the Consumer Price Index Number during the period from 1 April 2014 to 1 March 2016, and the revision of the National Floor Level Minimum Rate of Wages. The notification's own schedule of rates is headed "the proposed revised rate of minimum wages", wording left over from the proposal stage in what is an operative instrument. Its areas are not town and country: Area-I is where the Special Compensatory Allowance is payable at the lower rate, Area-II where it is payable at the higher, so the remoter area carries the higher wage.

Skill	Area IPlaces in Arunachal Pradesh where Special Compensatory Allowance is payable at the lower rate, and places outside Arunachal Pradesh where workers are employed by or under the authority of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh	Area IIAll other places in Arunachal Pradesh, where Special Compensatory Allowance at higher rates is admissible
unskilled	₹6,000 / month₹200.00 / day	₹6,600 / month₹220.00 / day
Semi-skilled	₹6,300 / month₹210.00 / day	₹6,900 / month₹230.00 / day
skilled	₹6,600 / month₹220.00 / day	₹7,200 / month₹240.00 / day

The same notification also says

The date on the notification has been altered by hand: a printed “April” is struck through and “July” written above it. The Secretary's signature is dated 01/07/16 on two separate pages, so the instrument issued on 1 July 2016 and takes effect retrospectively from 1 April 2016, which clause VI states in terms.
The minimum rates of wages also include the wages for the weekly off day.
Where the minimum rates in another State or Union Territory in which a Government or semi-Government organisation of Arunachal Pradesh is located are higher than these, the higher rate is paid to those employees.
Where a question arises whether particular work is skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, it may be referred to the Labour Department, whose decision is final.
Schedule-III classifies job titles into the three categories and each list closes with a catch-all, so the titles are examples rather than a closed class. A casual labourer, contingency worker or member of the Auxiliary Labour Corps who works 240 days in every calendar year is deemed to be in continuous service for treatment as semi-skilled or skilled.
Schedule-I's numbering runs 1 to 30 but prints “5” twice and skips 6, so it lists thirty employments under twenty-nine distinct numbers.
Any existing higher rates of wages and better service conditions already available to a worker are not affected by the order, and continue to be paid and made available.

Arunachal Pradesh's own rules · researched

The table above is from the state's own published minimum wage notification. Everything below is Arunachal Pradesh-specific, researched and not yet checked against an official source.

These rates are ten years old, and this desk cannot confirm they are current

Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016 is the most recent rate fixation Arunachal Pradesh appears to have published. The Department of Labour and Employment's website was read on 28 September 2026 and carries no newer rate notification; what it does publish is the Arunachal Pradesh Code on Wages Rules, notified 19 January 2022 and published in the Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette No. 35 of 24 February 2022, and they prescribe how a minimum rate is to be calculated — a standard working class family of three consumption units, 2,700 calories a day, 66 metres of cloth a year, housing — and contain no rate figures at all. So the position is that nothing newer was found — which is not the same as knowing nothing newer exists, and this page does not claim the stronger thing. At ₹200 a day for unskilled work these figures sit far below any current national floor, and anyone relying on them should check with the department. Everything below the rates — hours of work, the weekly day of rest, overtime, holidays and leave — comes from Schedule-IV of the same notification, carries no date, and is unaffected. The document is a scan with no text layer, so it was read from page images at 300 dots per inch.

Department of Labour & Employment, Arunachal Pradesh ↗

Arunachal Pradesh's published minimum wage rates date from 2016. They are the most recent this desk can find, but nothing confirms they are still the operative ones — so read the figures below with that in mind, and the service conditions further down without it.

Not yet verified against an official source

The two areas, and why the remoter one pays more

Area-I: Places in Arunachal Pradesh where Special Compensatory Allowance is payable at the lower rate, and places outside Arunachal Pradesh where workers are employed by or under the authority of the Government of Arunachal PradeshNotification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Area-II: All other places in Arunachal Pradesh, where Special Compensatory Allowance at higher rates is admissibleNotification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
What decides which area a place is in: The Special Compensatory Allowance payable thereThis is not a town-and-country split. The allowance is paid at higher rates in the more difficult and remote places, and those places are Area-II, which carries the higher wage. If a doubt or dispute arises about which area a place falls in, the decision of the concerned Deputy Commissioner is final; the power to declare a place difficult or remote rests with the General Administration Department.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016

Area-I rates, per day and per month, from 1 April 2016

Unskilled: ₹200 a day · ₹6,000 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹200 × 30 = ₹6,000.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Semi-skilled: ₹210 a day · ₹6,300 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹210 × 30 = ₹6,300.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Skilled: ₹220 a day · ₹6,600 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹220 × 30 = ₹6,600.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016

Area-II rates, per day and per month, from 1 April 2016

Unskilled: ₹220 a day · ₹6,600 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹220 × 30 = ₹6,600.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Semi-skilled: ₹230 a day · ₹6,900 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹230 × 30 = ₹6,900.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Skilled: ₹240 a day · ₹7,200 a monthThe notification prints the multiplication itself: ₹240 × 30 = ₹7,200.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016

What the document itself shows

The date, altered by hand: Issued 1 July 2016, in force from 1 April 2016On the face of the notification a printed “April” is struck through and “July” written above it in ink. The Secretary's signature carries the date 01/07/16 on two separate pages, which settles the question: the instrument issued on 1 July 2016. Clause VI then states that it comes into force with effect from 1 April 2016, so it operates retrospectively and there is no conflict between the two dates.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
A schedule headed “proposed”: In an operative notificationSchedule-II is headed “the proposed revised rate of minimum wages w.e.f 01.04.2016”. The word survives from the proposal stage; the instrument itself is operative and supersedes the 2014 notification in terms.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
A numbering slip in the employment list: Thirty employments, twenty-nine numbersSchedule-I prints the number 5 twice — against oil mills and against employment under a local authority — and skips 6. Thirty employments are listed; the numbering simply misses a step.Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
What it was revised on: the Consumer Price Index Number during the period from 1 April 2014 to 1 March 2016, and the revision of the National Floor Level Minimum Rate of WagesNotification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016

How a job is classified

Job titles classified: 24557 unskilled, 74 semi-skilled and 114 skilled. Each list closes with a catch-all for any other category of that nature, so the titles are examples rather than a closed class, and the notification itself says the list is not exhaustive though its perusal is important.Schedule-III to Notification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016
Casual labour worked long enough: 240 days in every calendar yearA casual labourer, contingency worker or member of the Auxiliary Labour Corps who works 240 days in every calendar year is deemed to be in continuous service for any number of years, for the purpose of being treated as semi-skilled or skilled.Schedule-III, explanation
If the category is disputed: Referred to the Labour Department, whose decision is finalNotification No. LAB (MW)-22/2016, Department of Labour and Employment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, issued 1 July 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016

Service conditions — Schedule-IV, which carries no date

Daily hours: 9 hours, with a break of 1 hourA worker engaged for more than 5 hours but less than 9 is deemed to have worked a full day.Schedule-IV, clause 1
Weekly paid day of rest: One day with wages, ordinarily SundayProvided the worker works continuously for the six days preceding it. Absence during those six days through sickness, authorised leave, an accident, a strike which is not illegal, a lock-out, or a cessation of work not due to any fault of the worker is deemed to be presence at work for this purpose.Schedule-IV, clause 2
Overtime: Twice the ordinary ratePayable where a worker works more than nine hours. Work on the paid weekly day of rest, a declared national holiday or a festival holiday is deemed to be overtime.Schedule-IV, clause 3
Casual leave: 6 days with wages a yearThis does not include special casual leave allowed for attending conferences, meetings and the like.Schedule-IV, clause 6
Wages during hospitalisation: Full wage for up to 15 daysSubject to production of a medical certificate issued by a competent authority. Where the employee is hospitalised for injuries sustained in an accident during the course of employment, full wages are payable for up to 30 days, subject to the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923. An employee is deemed to be in continuous service for 3 years if the service was uninterrupted, counting interruptions for sickness, authorised leave, accident, a lawful strike, a lock-out or a no-fault cessation of work.Schedule-IV, clause 7
Travelling and daily allowance: As admissible to Group-D regular Government employeesSchedule-IV, clause 8
Existing better terms: PreservedAny existing higher rates of wages and better service conditions already available to a worker are not affected by the order, and continue to be paid and made available.Schedule-IV, clause 9