The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoL&E) on September 25, 2024, issued the notification to revise the rates of Variable Dearness Allowance for the employees in certain services
The following has been stated namely: -
This shall be in effect from October 01, 2024
The revised VDA for the following services has been stated namely: -
- Agriculture
- Gypsum Mines
- Barytes Mines
- Bauxite Mines
- Manganese Mines
- China Clay Mines
- Kyanite Mines
- Copper Mines
- Clay Mines
- Magnesite Mines
- White Clay Mines
- Stone Mines
- Steatite Mines (including the mines producing Soap Stones and Talc)
- Ochre Mines
- Asbestos Mines
- Fire Clay Mines
- Chromite Mines
- Quartzite Mines
- Quartz Mines
- Silica Mines
- Graphite Mines
- Felspar Mines
- Laterite Mines
- Dolomite Mines
- Red Oxide Mines
- Wolfram Mines Iron Ore Mines
- Granite Mines
- Rock Phosphate Mines, Hematite Mines
- Marble and Calcite Mines, Uranium Mines
- Mica Mines
- Lignite Mines
- Gravel Mines
- Slate Mines
- Magnetite Mines
- Construction or Maintenance of Roads or Runways or in Building Operations including Laying down underground electric, wireless, radio, television, telephone, telegraph and overseas communication cables and similar other underground cabling work, electric lines, water supply lines and sewerage pipe lines.
- Goods sheds
- Parcel Offices of Railways
- Other Goods-Sheds, Go-downs, Warehouses and other similar employments
- Docks and Ports
- Passengers and Goods and Cargo Carried out at Airports (both international and domestic)
- Employment of Sweeping and Cleaning excluding activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
- Watch & Ward (without arms) and Watch and Ward (with arms)
- Stone Miners
The Variable Dearness Allowance is revised on the basis of the average Consumer Price Index for Industrial workers reaching 402.09 from 399.7O as on 30.06.2024 (Base 2016=100)
[Notification No. No. 1/27(1)/2024-LS-II]
