Minimum wages
State, zone, skill — shops vs industrial.
Not yet verified against an official source
West Bengal does not publish one wage table for the State. Its Labour Commissionerate issues a circular every six months consolidating the rates for each of thirty-one scheduled employments, each resting on its own fixation notification. The table above is entry 11 — establishments under the shops Act.
- What the circular is
- A consolidation, not the rate instrument. It names the fixation or revision notification behind each employment; entry 11's is Labr/650(Law)/MW/2W/32/13 of 29 December 2016Circular No. 30/Stat/14/RW/24/2023/LCS/JLC, 22.06.2026
- Employments on other rates
- Security services, engineering units employing fewer than fifty persons, the glass industry, the manufacture of rubber products and the refractory industry are a few rupees lower, on notifications of 20 December 2019 — for example ₹10,556 a month for unskilled work in Zone A against ₹10,558 hereThe same circular, entries 10, 14, 24, 27 and 30
- Dearness allowance
- The circular states that the minimum rates and the variable dearness allowance, if any, together make up the minimum wage enforceable under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. The figures shown already include itThe same circular, condition (10)
- How a day and a week are worked out
- The monthly rate divided by 26 and rounded to the nearest rupee for a day; that daily rate multiplied by six for a weekThe same circular, condition (3)
- Brick kilns and other employments
- Not yet addedThe circular covers thirty-one scheduled employments in all. Only entry 11 is shown here; the rest are in the circular