Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Friday announced to increase the minimum wages of unskilled labourers from Rs5,900 per month to Rs7,600 per month and of Skilled labourers from Rs6,536 per month to Rs9,699 per month thus fulfilling the long pending demand of the labourers in the State.
This increase in the wages will be applicable from November 1, 2015. Manohar lal announced this at the valedictory session of the State level Consultative Meet on New Education Policy–2015 at Panchkula on Friday.
The Chief Minister made this announcement while paying rich tributes to the great philosopher, thinker and educationist Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary.
Manohar lal also announced that the minimum wages of unskilled and skilled labourers would be increased as per the rate of inflation. Earlier, these minimum wages were increased at the rate of 2.31 per cent annually. He said that earlier, the minimum wages of labourers had been increased in the year 2007 and these should have been revised after five years in 2012, but the previous government failed to increase it.