Guwahati, July 1 -- The Centre has notified the daily wage rates for unskilled manual workers under the newly introduced Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAMG) scheme, fixing the minimum wage at Rs 300 per day for workers in most states.

According to the official notification published in the Gazette of India, the daily wage has been set at Rs 300 for several states and Union Territories, including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha and Rajasthan.

A few states have been assigned higher wage rates. Haryana has the highest notified wage at Rs 409 per day, followed by Goa at Rs 406, Kerala at Rs 401, Karnata...