1994 Supreme(Raj) 781
J.R.CHOPRA, P.K.PALLI
Mageria Daily Wages Workers Union – Appellant
Versus
State of Rajasthan – Respondent
JUDGMENT
1. - The petitioner No. 1 is a Union of the Labourers and petitioner No. 2 is its President and in this petition, they have claimed the minimum wages to be paid to the labourers who were employed for carrying out the projects under the Jawahar Rozgar Yojna and the labourers were employed in the present case for two works, i.e. construction of boundary wall of Primary School at Akhalon Ki Dhani and for construction of incomplete boundary wall of the Primary School at Dodiyal. The order in this respect of the District Rural Development Agency, Jodhpur dated May 2, 1992 has been placed as Annex. 1 on record. It is stated that the labourers that were working on daily rate basis on the famine relief works under the above said scheme were denied the basic minimum wages. The work commenced on these two works from June 6, 1992 and completed on July 15, 1992 and the members of the petitioner Union had been employed for the works listed at Section Nos. 85 and 96 of Annex. 1.
2. The labour so employed at the said works were to be paid their wages on the muster roll basis and the grievance is that the labour were paid their wages much less than the minimum wages payable to the labour u
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