Karnataka likely to revise minimum wages, notification expected in two weeks: Report
Bengaluru: Karnataka may become the leading state in India for offering the highest minimum wages for both skilled and unskilled laborers. A formal notification regarding the wage revision is expected to be issued within the next two weeks.
The state's current minimum wages, as per a notification from 2022 by the Labour Department, range between Rs 12,000 and Rs 20,000 per month. Karnataka is home to approximately 1.7 crore workers across various sectors, both organised and unorganised, as reported by The New Indian Express.
The draft notification on wage revision will be presented before the Karnataka Minimum Wage Advisory Board, which will then recommend wages for various categories, The New Indian Express report stated while quoting its sources. These recommendations may be either accepted or modified by the state government.
Trade unions have been demanding for a substantial increase in the minimum wage, calling for it to rise to Rs 35,000 per month.
Labour Minister Santosh Lad clarified that the minimum wage revision has not yet been finalised. He mentioned that the proposal has to be kept before the board for approval.
Lad noted that they need to follow certain parameters before finalising the new wages, adding that they are hoping to finish this task within 15 days.
“When we finalise the wages, we consider the demands of employers as well as workers. We are going to revise the existing wages. With the revision, Karnataka’s minimum wages are expected to be the highest in India,’’ TNIE quoted a source as saying.
Currently, Delhi has the highest minimum wages in India, ranging from Rs 17,000 to Rs 23,000 per month.
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Rahul Gandhi to join Congress padyatra in Bihar, address party workers
Patna (PTI): Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will join the party's ongoing 'Palayan Roko, Naukri Do' padyatra in Bihar's Begusarai district on Monday.
Later in the day, he will return to Patna from Begusarai to address the 'Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan' (Save the Constitution Symposium). After that he will visit Sadaqat Ashram, the Bihar Congress office in Patna, to address party workers.
This will be Gandhi's third Bihar tour since January, when he had urged party workers to "inflict an ideological defeat" on the BJP in the assembly polls due later this year.
The Raebareli MP shared a minute-long video message on X on Sunday, urging the youth of Bihar to join him in the march in Begusarai wearing "white T-shirts".
"Our aim is to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Bihar's youth, who find government jobs getting scarce day by day and privatisation bringing no benefits. Let us bring the government in the state under pressure and change it," he said in the video.
Begusarai also happens to be the home district of Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been the star attraction of the padyatra, which began in East Champaran district last month.
The former JNU students' union president had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, on a CPI ticket, from the seat.
In the Bihar assembly polls, the Mahagathbandhan, comprising RJD, Congress and the Left, is pitted against the ruling Nitish Kumar-led NDA that also comprises the BJP.
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