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ANNEXURE

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Executive Summary

SECTION-I

Introduction

1-9

SECTION-II

Main Provisions of the Act

10-12

SECTION-III

Statistics collected under the Minimum Wages Act,1948

13-16

Statistical Tables

17-68

TABLE-1

Employments Added Subsequently to the Schedule Appended to the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 during the year 2006.

17

TABLE-2

Employments in which Minimum Wages were fixed for the first time during the year 2006.

17

TABLE-3

Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers in Scheduled Employments.

18-46

TABLE-4

Range of Minimum Wages as on 31.12.2006.

47

TABLE-5

Comparative Minimum Wage Rates prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central Sphere/States/Union Territories as on 31.12.2006.

48-66

TABLE-6

Number of establishments covered under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and the average daily number of persons employed during the year 2006.

67

TABLE-7

Number of inspections made, irregularities detected, prosecutions launched and claims preferred in the Central Sphere/State and U.Ts for the year 2006.

68

Annexure I

List of original employments included in the Schedule under Minimum Wages Act, 1948

69

Annexure II

Machinery for Enforcement of Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for the year 2005.

70-71

Annexure III

List of reports brought out on the subject till date

72

Annexure IV

Prescribed Consolidated Return under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948

73-81

Annexure V

Officers / Officials Associated with the Preparation of the Report

82