The Supreme Court on 11th July directed all states to pay workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act ( MGNREGA ) revised wages as per the notification issued by the Centre in February this year.
A bench of justices S. J. Mukhopadaya and S.A. Bobde passed this order disposing of a special leave petition filed by the Centre against a Karnataka High Court verdict that said the Union Government was liable to pay higher wages under the country flagship rural employment programme in tandem with that of the state of minimum wage rate.
As per the February 13, 2014 notification issued by the Ministry of Rural Development, the wages per day to be paid by the States and Union Territories range from 156 in Uttarakhand to Rs. 236 in Haryana. In Karnataka the wages were revised from Rs. 100 to Rs. 191. Earlier wages paid in Karnataka was Rs. 100 where as minimum wages in the State was Rs. 119 and it was on the basis the High Court ask the Centre to pay minimum wages and not Rs. 100.
A bench of justices S. J. Mukhopadaya and S.A. Bobde passed this order disposing of a special leave petition filed by the Centre against a Karnataka High Court verdict that said the Union Government was liable to pay higher wages under the country flagship rural employment programme in tandem with that of the state of minimum wage rate.
As per the February 13, 2014 notification issued by the Ministry of Rural Development, the wages per day to be paid by the States and Union Territories range from 156 in Uttarakhand to Rs. 236 in Haryana. In Karnataka the wages were revised from Rs. 100 to Rs. 191. Earlier wages paid in Karnataka was Rs. 100 where as minimum wages in the State was Rs. 119 and it was on the basis the High Court ask the Centre to pay minimum wages and not Rs. 100.