Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Tripura pay the lowest daily wage to labourers at a time of high retail and food inflation in India, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) November 19, 2022. The daily wages in these states are below even the national average in all categories of workers, including those in the construction, agriculture, horticulture and non-agricultural sectors, according to the central bank. Male agricultural workers in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat get only Rs 217.8 and Rs 220.3 per day, respectively. These states are followed by Odisha, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. Kerala pays the highest — Rs 726.8. It is followed by Jammu and Kashmir at Rs 524.6, Himachal Pradesh at Rs 457.6 and Tamil Nadu at Rs 445.6. The latest data pertains to 2021-22. The national average for agricultural daily wage rate was Rs 323.32.
The trend is similar for wages of construction workers. Workers in Tripura, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat get a meagre Rs 250, Rs 266.7 and Rs 295.9 as daily wages. But, their
— source downtoearth.org.in | 24 Nov 2022