Delhi govt hikes minimum wage, dearness allowance for skilled & unskilled workers
The minimum wage for unskilled workers has been increased from Rs 16,506 per month to Rs 18,066.
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Further, the government has increased the minimum wages for supervisors and clerical cadre of employees, such as matriculate, non-matriculate and graduate. (Express Photo)TWO days after assuming charge as the chief minister, Atishi on Wednesday increased both dearness allowance (DA) and minimum wage for skilled and unskilled workers. The new rates will come into effect from October 1.
The minimum wage was last revised in 2019, after which the government has revised DA every six months. “After the DA was revised last October, it was supposed to be revised again in April this year. But with the then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in jail and due to the Lok Sabha elections, the same was delayed,” said an official.
The monthly wages of unskilled workers have been increased from Rs 17,494 to Rs 18,066. While for semi-skilled workers, the monthly wages have been increased from 19,279 to Rs 19,929, skilled labourers have seen a salary jump from Rs 21,215 to Rs 21,917.
Further, the government has increased the minimum wages for supervisors and clerical cadre of employees, such as matriculate, non-matriculate and graduate.
Addressing her first press conference after becoming the CM, Atishi on Wednesday took on the BJP. “The Delhi government has once again decided to increase minimum wages in Delhi. Delhi has the highest minimum wage in the entire country… On the other hand, there are BJP-ruled states where the minimum wage is half that of Delhi.”
Accusing BJP of being “anti-poor” and earlier trying to stop labourers from getting a salary hike, Atishi said, “The BJP has always worked against the poor. When Arvind Kejriwal’s government in Delhi talked about increasing the minimum wage in 2016-17, BJP stopped it through its L-G. But then we moved court and hiked the wages twice a year.”
She further said that before the AAP came to power in Delhi, the minimum wage for unskilled workers in Delhi was only Rs 7,722. The minimum wage for semi-skilled workers was Rs 8,528 and that of skilled workers was only Rs 9,388, she added.
“In the last 10 years, the government has been providing a better and more respectable life to the common people. In the coming four months also, we will continue to work in the same way…”
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