Dear Friends
If we read para 19 it include the following words

"The idea of fixing such wage in the light of the cost of living at a particular juncture of time and of neutralising the rising prices of essential commodities by linking up scales of minimum wages with the cost of living index is provided for in Section 4 but VDA is part and parcel of wages. Once rates of minimum wages are prescribed under the Act, whether as all-inclusive under Section 4(1)(iii) or by combining basic plus dearness allowance under Section 4(1)(i), are not amenable to split up. It is one pay package. Neither the scheme nor any provision of the Act provides that the rates of minimum wages are to be split up on the basis of the cost of each of the necessities taken into consideration for fixing the same."

It may pls be noted that the definition of Wages under the Act never say so that the Minimum wages can be bifurcated under various heads...

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