National Rural Employment Guarantee Act : Wage rate. Indian Bare Acts :

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,2005

Act No : 42

Section : Wage rate.

6. Wage rate.-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), the Central Government may, by notification, specify the wage rate for the purposes of this Act:Provided that different rates of wages may be specified for different areas:Provided further that the wage rate specified from time to time under any such notification shall not be at a rate less than sixty rupees per day.(2) Until such time as a wage rate is fixed by the Central Government in respect of any area in a State, the minimum wage fixed by the State Government under section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) for agricultural labourers, shall be considered as the wage rate applicable to that area.