Minimum wages
State, zone, skill — shops vs industrial.
This desk publishes no minimum wage rate for Lakshadweep. The Union territory has the machinery to fix one, but the notification carrying the basic rates is not held, and the only figures on file are an allowance whose period ended in April 2020.
Not yet verified against an official sourceWhat is held, and what is not
- A minimum wage rate
- Not yet addedNot held, and not inferred from the allowance.
- The basic rates
- Not heldThe notification that makes daily-rated workers eligible for variable dearness allowance, and where the basic rates sit. It is named by the allowance notification and was not obtainable.F. No. 36/8/99-EEL of 1 December 2011
- The variable dearness allowance
- ₹124.80 a dayFor 1 November 2019 to 30 April 2020, at forty paise for each point the cost-of-living index rises. Approved by the Hon'ble Administrator vide Diary No. 487 dated 02.03.2020 and signed by K. P. Thangakoya, Director (Labour, Employment & Training). The index figure comes from F. No. 60/1/2019-PST/83 dated 11.02.2020 declaring the Consumer Price Index for the month of October, 2019.F. No. 7/12/2014-LM of 9 March 2020
- Whether that allowance still runs
- No — its period ended 30 April 2020This is the most recent variable dearness allowance notification on the Administration's own portal. Its period ended on 30 April 2020 and nothing later was found.Checked 28/09/2026
- An Advisory Board
- YesThe Lakshadweep Minimum Wages Advisory Board (LMWAB), named in the distribution list of the Administration's own notification. Its existence is how this desk knows Lakshadweep fixes its own wages rather than having them fixed for it.The distribution list of F. No. 7/12/2014-LM
Whether the Administrator may fix wages at all
- The draft rules under the Code on Wages
- A draft, dated March 2026The Administration's own portal lists this file as the “Code on Wages (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025”. The document is a DRAFT, its notification is dated March 2026 with the day left blank, and it invites objections for forty-five days. It is published here as what it is, not as what the listing calls it. It invites objections for 45 days, was approved by the Hon'ble Administrator vide diary no. 423 dated 15.03.2026, and was signed 27/3/26, by hand. Its date line reads “Kavaratti, dated the ___ of March, 2026”, with the day left blank — shown as printed.F.No.08/01/2024-LE&T, Gazette Vol. LXII, No. 20, Department of Employment & Training
- The power relied on
- Section 67 of the Code on Wages, 2019 (Central Act No. 29 of 2019) read with Section 2 d(ii) & 2 (w)F.No.08/01/2024-LE&T
- Whether that power has been delegated to the Administrator
- Not recorded as confirmedThe Administrator proposes the rules “subject to the confirmation of order of delegating the power of Appropriate Government or State Government to Administrator Union Territory of Lakshadweep”. This desk reports that as the document states it. It is the only jurisdiction here whose own instrument leaves the authority to make it open, and nothing is assumed either way.F.No.08/01/2024-LE&T
What the Administration's own portal carries
- A search for “minimum wages”
- No resultsThe search works: “labour” returns 54 results, none of them a wage instrument. So this is a nil on a search proved to function, which is stronger than an unreachable portal — but it remains an absence, not a statement that no such instrument exists.https://lakshadweep.gov.in/, 28/09/2026
- Acts and Rules of the Union territory
- None publishedThe department's page sets out its functions and links only to central portals — the Ministry, the Labour Bureau, the Chief Labour Commissioner, e-Shram and the National Career Service. It names no Act or Rules of its own.https://lakshadweep.gov.in/departments/labour-employment-and-training/