| Scheduled Employments for which Central Government has Fixed Minimum Wages under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (As on 1.4.1999) | |
| Employment | Minimum Wages including VDA to the Lowest Paid Worker (in Rs.) |
| Agriculture | |
| Construction or Maintenance of Roads or Building Operations | |
| Stone Breaking or Stone Crushing | |
| Maintenance of Buildings. | |
| Construction and Maintenance of Runways. | |
| Gypsum Mines. | |
| Barytes Mines. | |
| Bauxite Mines. | |
| Manganese Mines. | |
| China Clay Mines. | |
| Kyanite Mines. | |
| Copper Mines. | |
| Clay Mines. | |
| Stone Mines. | |
| White Clay Mines. | |
| Ochre Mines. | |
| Fire Clay Mines. | |
| Steatite (Soapstone and Tale) Mines. | |
| Asbestos Mines. | |
| Chromite Mines. | |
| Quartzite Mines. | |
| Quartz Mines. | |
| Silica Mines. | |
| Magnesite Mines. | |
| Graphite Mines. | |
| Felspar Mines. | |
| Redoxide Mines. | |
| Laterite Mines. | |
| Dolomite Mines. | |
| Iron Ore Mines. | |
| Granite Mines. | |
| Wolframe Mines. | |
| Magnetite Mines. | |
| Rockphosphate Mines. | |
| Hematite Mines. | |
| Loading, Unloading in Railways` Goods Shed. | |
| Ash Pit Cleaning in Railways. | |
| Marble and Calcite Mines. | |
| Uranium Mines. | |
| Mica Mines. | |
| Employment in Lignite Mines.** | |
| Employment in Gravel Mines.** | |
| Employment in Laying Down of Underground Electric, Wireless, Radio, Television, Telephone, Telegraph, and Overseas Communication Cables and Similar Other Underground Cabling, Electric Lines, Water Supply Lines and Sewerage Pope Lines.** | |
| Employment in the Slate Mines.** | |
