Issued by the Labour Commissionerate, Statistics Section, Government of West Bengal. The circular notifies revised minimum rates of wages for 16 scheduled employments: Agriculture, Bidi Leaf Plucking, Cold Storage, Cinchona Plantation, Chartered/Cost Accountants/Auditors/Tax Consultants and related firms, Employment in Meat & Meat Products and Feed Plants, Fishery, Forestry or Timbering Operations, Fishing Activities including River & Deep-Sea Fishing, Handlooms, Lac Manufactories, Medicinal Plants Plantation (other than Cinchona), Rice Mills, Sericulture Nursery/Silk Spinning and Weaving, Salt Manufacturing Industry, and Tobacco Godown.

Rates are set out by category (Unskilled, Semi-skilled, Skilled, Highly Skilled, and further sub-categories) with Per Month, Per Day, and Piece rates (where applicable), referencing individual Fixation/Revision Notifications and the previous period Circular No. 05/Stat/14/RW/24/2023/LCS/JLC dated 09.01.2026, read with Labour Department Notification No. I/723462/2025/LABR-25099/31/2025-LWMW dated 15.12.2025. General conditions include: one minimum wage rate for the whole of West Bengal; daily rate = monthly rate ÷ 26; weekly rate = daily rate × 6; a normal working day of eight-and-a-half hours including a half-hour rest interval; one weekly rest day; double wages for rest-day or overtime work; protection of higher existing contractual rates; applicability to contract employees; equal rates for disabled persons and for men/women performing similar work; and that minimum wages with variable dearness allowance constitute the enforceable minimum wage under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.