Compliance Requirements

1. Revised Minimum Wages – 67 Scheduled Employments (Schedule-A, Part-B)

For the 67 scheduled employments listed at serial numbers 1 to 36, 39 to 55, and 57 to 66 and 68 to 72 under Schedule-A, Part-B – for which variable dearness allowance had not yet been separately declared and made effective – the notification computes the revised VDA with reference to the six-monthly average All-India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers for July–December 2025 (425), an increase of 11 average points over the immediately preceding six-monthly average (414), at the rate of ₹1 per point. The base minimum wage rates (as revised with effect from April 1, 2024 vide notification dated March 4, 2024, referenced to CPI base index 311, average January–June 2019, 2001=100) are combined with the revised VDA to arrive at the total wage payable, computed on a 26-day month basis, for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026.

2. Revised Minimum Wages – Employment in Slate Pencil Manufacturing Units (Schedule-B)

For workers employed in a slate pencil manufacturing unit, the notification prescribes the following category-wise minimum wage and VDA rates, computed on a 26-day month basis, for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026:

3. Revised Minimum Wages – Employment in Printing Press (Schedule-C)

For workers employed in a printing press, the notification prescribes separate category-wise rate structures for the Clerical Category, the Skilled Category, and the Semi-Skilled Category, computed on a 26-day month basis, for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026, as follows:

Clerical Category

Skilled Category

Semi-Skilled Category

4. Revised Minimum Wages – Agricultural Employment (Schedule-D)

For workers engaged in agricultural operations, the notification records that the average agricultural-worker Consumer Price Index for the six-month period July–December 2025 stood at 1,322, an increase of 14 average points over the preceding six-monthly average of 1,308. Applying a rate of ₹6 per point, the following minimum wage, inclusive of variable dearness allowance, is payable on a 30-day month basis for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026:

5. Revised Minimum Wages – Daily-Wage Workers and Employees in Government Departments (Schedule-क)

For daily-wage workers and employees engaged across various Government Departments of Madhya Pradesh, the following monthly and daily wage rates, inclusive of variable dearness allowance and computed on a 30-day month basis, are payable for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026:

6. Revised Rates – Beedi-Rolling Employment

For beedi-rolling employment, the notification records an increase of 2,573 average points in the applicable Consumer Price Index (Base 1960=100, index 6730). The following rate is prescribed per 1,000 beedis rolled:

On the sale of 1,000 beedis, beedi workers are additionally entitled to bonus pay of ₹11.82 (8.33%) and cash payment in lieu of earned leave of ₹6.76 (5%), together with an employer’s provident fund contribution of ₹14.19 (10%) — aggregating to ₹167.96 gross payable per 1,000 beedis. From this gross amount, the combined workers’ and employer’s provident fund contribution of ₹28.38 is deducted; after further deducting the workers’ own provident fund contribution of ₹14.19 (10%), the net amount payable to workers for the period stated in the notification is ₹139.58 per 1,000 beedis.

7. Revised Rates – Agarbatti (Incense Stick) Employment (Schedule-F)

For agarbatti (incense stick) rolling employment, based on an increase of 11 average points in the six-monthly average Consumer Price Index (2001=100) for July–December 2025 over the preceding average of 414, the following rates per 1,000 agarbattis rolled are payable:

8. Revised Minimum Wages – Three New Scheduled Employments (Section-A, Schedule-A)

Pursuant to the order dated February 10, 2025 passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench, in Writ Petition No. WP.10772/2024, three new scheduled employments (listed at Appendix-C) have been notified. The following monthly and daily wage rates, inclusive of variable dearness allowance and computed on a 26-day month basis, are payable for the period April 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026.

9. General Conditions Applicable to the Revised Rates

• Daily wage rates for the 67 scheduled employments (Schedule-A, Part-B), slate pencil manufacturing, printing press employment, and the three new scheduled employments under Section-A are computed on a 26-day month basis; rates for agricultural employment and for daily-wage workers and employees in Government Departments are computed on a 30-day month basis.
• As per the unanimous resolution of the Madhya Pradesh Minimum Wages Advisory Council at its meeting dated June 20, 2006, wage determination rounds off both the rupee and paise components of the computed rate to arrive at the applicable rounded daily rate.
• As per Finance Department Circular No. F 9-79-7/2006/Rule/Four dated September 20, 2006, a fractional amount of 50 paise or more is rounded up to the next higher rupee, and an amount of less than 50 paise is dropped, in arriving at the rounded daily rate.
• The variable dearness allowance is revised periodically with reference to movements in the applicable Consumer Price Index — the All-India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (Base 2001=100) for most scheduled employments, a separate agricultural-worker Consumer Price Index for agricultural employment, and a Consumer Price Index on Base 1960=100 for beedi-rolling employment.