Revised VDA and Minimum Wages for Industrial Workers of Stone Mines w.e.f 01.04.2021

Revised Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) and Minimum Wages payable to the employees employed in Stone Mines w.e.f. 01.04.2021

File No. 1/16(1)/2021-LS-II
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner(C)
New Delhi

Dated 23/4/2021

ORDER

In exercise of the powers conferred by the Central Government Vide Notification No.S.0. 189(E) dated 19th January , 2017 of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, the undersigned hereby revise the rates of Variable Dearness Allowance on the basis of the average Consumer Price Index for Industrial workers for the month of July, 2020 is 336 and August , 2020 is 338 (Base 2001-100) and (Base Year 2016-100) for the month of September, 2020 is 118.1, October, 2020 is 119.5, November, 2020 is 119.9 and December , 2020 is 118.8 and thereby resulting in an increase of 2.88 points. The revised Variable Dearness Allowance as under shall be payable from 01.04.2021 :-

RATES OF V.D.A.FOR EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED IN “STONE MINES” shall be as under:-

	Item of work	Rates of Variable Dearness Allowance as on 01-04.2021
1.	Excavation & removal of over burden with 50 meters lead / 1.5 meters lift. *
	(i) Soft Soil	Rs. 84
	(ii) Soft Soil with rock	Rs. 123
	(iii) Rock	Rs. 163
2.	Removal and stacking of rejected stones with 50 metres lead/ 1.5 Metres lift. *	Rs.66
3.	Stone breaking or Stone Crushing for the Stone size of:-
	1.0 inch to 1.5 inches	Rs. 495
	Above 1.5 inches to 3.0 inches	Rs. 423
	Above 3.0 inches to 5.0 inches	Rs. 250
	Above 5.0 inches	Rs. 206

Therefore, the minimum piece rate wages showing the basic and Variable Dearness Allowance payable w.e.f. 01.04.2021 to the employees employed in Stone Mines shall be as under:-

Category		Basic Wages		VDA		Total
1.	Excavation & removal of over burden with 50 meters Lead / 1.5 Meters lift. *	Rs. 351	+	Rs.84	=	Rs.435
	(i) Soft Soil	Rs. 531	+	Rs.123	=	Rs.654
	(ii) Soft Soil with rock	Rs. 703	+	Rs.163	=	Rs.866
	(iii) Rock
2.	Removal and stacking of rejected stones with 50 metres lead/ 1.5 Metres lift. *	Rs. 283	+	Rs.66	=	Rs.349
3.	Stone Breaking or Stone Crushing for stone size of category **	Basic Wages		VDA		Total
	(i) 1.0 inch to 1.5 inches	Rs. 1271	+	Rs.495	=	2666
	(ii) Above 1.5 inches to 3.0 inches	Rs. 1857	+	Rs.423	=	2280
	(iii) Above 3.0 inches to 5.0 inches	Rs. 1088	+	Rs.250	=	1338
	(iv) Above 5.0 inches	Rs.893	+	Rs.206	=	1099

The workers employed on minimum guaranteed time rate of wages per day shall be entitled to time rate of minimum wages plus special allowance, if any, for unskilled category of above ground workers revised from time to time by the Central Government in respect of scheduled employment in stone mines.

* Per 2.831 cube meters (100 cubic feet)

** Per truck load of 5.662 cubic meters (200 cubic feet)

(D.P.S. Negi)
Chief Labour Commissioner(C)

CLASSIFICATION OF AREA

AREA -“A”

Ahmedabad	(UA)	Hyderabad	(UA)	Faridabad complex	(M.Corpn)
Bangaluru	(UA)	Kanpur	(UA)	Ghaziabad	(UA)
Delhi	(UA)	Chennai	(UA)	Noida
Greater Mumbai	(UA)	Nagpur	(UA)	Secunderabad
Kolkata	(UA)	Lucknow	(UA)	Gurgaon	(M. Corpn)
Navi Mumbai	(UA)	Pune	(UA)
AREA -“B”
Agra	(UA)	Gwalior	(UA)	Port Blair	(UA)
Ajmer	(UA)	Hubli-Dharwad	(M. Corpn)	Puducherry	(UA)
Aligarh	(UA)	Indore	(UA)	Rajpur	(UA)
Allahabad	(UA)	Jabalpur	(UA)	Raurkela	(UA)
Amravati	(M.Coron)	Jaipur	(M.Coron)	Raikot	(UA)
Amritsar	(UA)	Jalandhar	(UA)	Ranchi	(UA)
Asansol	(UA)	Jalandhar-Cantt.	(UA)	Saharanpur	(M.Corpn)
Aurangabad	(UA)	Jammu	(UA)	Salem	(VA)
Bareilly	(UA)	Jamnagar	(UA)	Sangli	(UA)
Belgaum	(UA)	Jamshedpur	(UA)	Shillong
Bhavnagar	(UA)	Jhansi	(UA)	Siliguri	(UA)
Bhiwandi	(UA)	Jodhpur	(UA)	Solapur	(M .Corpn)
Bhopal	(UA)	Kannur	(UA)	Srinagar	(UA)
Bhubaneshwar	(UA)	Kochi	(UA)	Surat	(UA)
Bikaner	(M.Corpn)	Kolhapur	(UA)	Thiruvananthapuram	(UA)
Bokaro Steel City	(UA)	Kollam	(UA)	Thrissur	(UA)
Chandigarh	(UA)	Kota	(M.Coron)	Tiruchirappalli	(UA)
Coimbatore	(UA)	Kozhikode	(UA)	Tirupur	(UA)
Cuttack	(UA)	Ludhiana	(M.Coron)	Ujjain	(M.Corpn)
Dehradun	(UA)	Madurai	(UA)	Vadodara	(UA)
Dhanbad	(UA)	Malappuram	(UA)	Varanasi	(UA)
Durgapur	(UA)	Malegaon	(UA)	Vasai- Virar City	(M.Corpn)
Durg-Bhilai Nagar	(UA)	Mangalore	(UA)	Vijayawada	(UA)
Erode	(UA)	Meerut	(UA)	Vishakhapatnam	(M.Corpn)
Firozabad		Moradabad	(M. Coron)	Warangal	(UA)
Goa		Mysore	(UA)
Gorakhpur	(UA)	Nanded Waghala	(M. Coron)
Greater Visakhapatnam	(M.Corpn)	Nasik	(UA)
Gulbarga	(UA)	Nellore	(UA)
Guntur	(UA)	Panchkula	(UA)
Guwahati	(UA)	Patna	(UA)
Note 1.-Area ‘C’ shall comprise all areas not mentioned in this list but to which the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 ( 11 of 1948) extends.
Note 2.- U.A. means Urban Agglomeration.