The State Government of Jharkhand on September 02, 2020 has declared Consumer Price Index (CPI) applicable to the employees engaged in the following industry payable from April 01, 2020:
• Chemical pharmaceutical industry
• Soap making industry
• Asbestos cement factory
• Glass sheet industry
• Gun factory
• Religious and social industry
• Paper industry
• Laundry and washing
• Hosieries manufacturing
• Manufacture of sindoor and rang
• Manufacture of leather goods
• Wood work and furniture
• Ice cream and cold drinks
• Petrol and Diesel pump
• Fisheries
• Khaadi and village industry
• Private ferries and LTC
• Hard coke oven
• Private hospital
• Construction of roads and buildings
• Printing press
• Mica works
• Handloom industry
• Manufacture of gold articles
• Any shop or establishment
• Public motor transport
• Any university
• Any woolen carpet making and shawl weaving establishments
• Dairies and poultry farms
• Auto mobile engineering
• Cinema industry
• Tailoring industry
• Rubber and rubber compound industry
• Electric and other type of bulb and Florence tube manufacture industry
• Plastic industry
• Cement, Hume pipe
• Employment in agriculture
• Book binding industry
• Employment of glass industry
• Electronics industry
• Plywood industry
• Foundry industry
• Biscuit industry
• Coal Briquette industry
• Private Security Agency
• Minor engineering industry
• Mineral grinding industry
• Employment of sweeping and cleaning
• Sponge iron, rod manufacturing
• Employment in motor garages and workshops
• Employment of motor body building
• Employment of mess, canteens and clubs
• Employment in Chartered/Cost accountant, auditors and architect
• Private technical institutions, coaching
• Employment in laying of underground tables, electric lines
• Employment in electricity generator and supply
• Employment in decoration of pandals
• Grinding of mineral ore
• Employment of bus and truck driver
• Computer coaching institute etc.
• Employment of mobile tower
• Employment of Sales Promotion (Abolition and Regulation) Act, 1976
The rates of Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) will be based on the average of all India Consumer Price Index (CPI) on which the minimum rates of wages have been fixed in the above scheduled employments. The payment of VDA on the basis of average CPI of July 2019 to December 2019 is payable from April 01, 2020.
[Notification No. 2/MW-2071/2010 L&T-912]
