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'Our Diwali is gone': Delhi's contract workers struggle to make ends meet after steep pay cuts -Vijayta Lalwani

-Scroll.in In August Delhi High Court set aside the state government’s March 2017 notification raising minimum wages. Lata Rani, 32, is a caretaker at a Delhi government school in Jhandewalan. She joined in 2015 for a salary of Rs 7,300 a month which was raised to Rs 11,000 in March 2017. When she went to collect her pay this month, Rani was in for a shock: her salary had been cut by almost half. “My husband and I took a loan of Rs 50,000 because this money is too little for us to survive,” she said. “With just Rs 6,000, I cannot pay for water, electricity and food. It all costs about Rs 10,000.” Ramji Yadav, 35, a security guard at another school, also received just Rs 6,000 this month instead of the usual Rs 13,000. “Our Diwali is gone,” Yadav said. “The rent of my house alone is Rs 6,000. But we still come to work every day. We cannot afford to leave.” Rani and Yadav are among thousands of contract workers, including security guards, caretakers, sanitation staff, who suffered steep pay cuts this month. The reason? The Delhi High Court in August set aside the state government’s March 2017 notification raising minimum wages for them. The notification fixed the gross salary at Rs 13,350 per month for unskilled workers, Rs 14,698 for semiskilled ones, and Rs 16,182 for the skilled. The High Court’s order came on a batch of petitions filed by employer associations in sectors as varied as hospitality, medicine, publishing and real estate. They challenged not only the March 2017 notification but also a September 2016 decision of the Delhi government to reconstitute the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee. The petitioners claimed they were not adequately represented in the committee and cited media reports to accuse the state of unilaterally deciding that “minimum wages in Delhi would be the highest in the country”. Please click here to read more.