S.O. 2450(E). Notification i.r.o. Section 4 of the Code on Wages,2019

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 12th May, 2026

S.O. 2450(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Code on Wages, 2019 (29 of 2019), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Labour and Employment number S.O. No. 3729(E) dated the 17.10.2019, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby notifies the officers mentioned in column (2) of the Table below to be the authority, to decide any dispute relating to any issue as to whether a work is of same or similar nature for the purposes of section 3 of the said Code, in relation to the establishments to which the Central Government is the appropriate Government, in the area specified against them in column (3) thereof, namely:-

TABLE

Sl. Officers Jurisdiction No. (2) (3) (1)

1. All Deputy Chief Labour The whole of India. Commissioners (Central), office of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), New Delhi

2. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Gujarat and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar (Central), Ahmedabad Haveli and Daman and Diu.

3. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Rajasthan. (Central), Ajmer

4. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The civil districts of Bardhaman-East, Bardhaman-West, Birbhum, (Central), Asansol Bankura and Purulia in the State of West Bengal.

5. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Karnataka. (Central), Bengaluru

6. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Odisha. (Central), Bhubaneshwar

7. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Maharashtra (except the civil districts of Nagpur, (Central), Mumbai Bhandara, Akola, Beed, Amaravati, Wardha, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Nanded, Gadchiroli, Parbhani, Latur, Yeotmal, Dharashiv, Hingoli, Gondia and Washim) and the State of Goa.

8. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of West Bengal (except the civil districts of Bardhaman-(Central), Kolkata East, Bardhaman-West, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia), the State of Sikkim and the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

9. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Kerala and Union territory of Lakshadweep and Mahe (Central), Cochin of the Union territory of Puducherry.

10. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Union (Central), Chandigarh Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh.

11. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Jharkhand (except the districts of Pakur, Latehar, (Central), Dhanbad Garhwa, Palamu, Sahibganj, Dumka and Godda).

12. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The States of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur, (Central), Guwahati Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

13. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the area of Yanam (Central), Hyderabad of the Union territory of Puducherry.

14. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Madhya Pradesh. (Central), Jabalpur

15. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Uttar Pradesh [except the civil districts of Saharanpur, (Central), Kanpur Bijnor, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Badaun, Moradabad, Amroha, Sambhal, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Rampur, Baghpat, Hapur, Shamli and Gautam Buddha Nagar].

16. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Uttarakhand and civil districts of Saharanpur, Bijnor, (Central), Dehradun Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Bareilly, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Amroha, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Sambhal, Badaun, Rampur, Baghpat, Hapur, Shamli and Gautam Buddha Nagar in the State of Uttar Pradesh.

17. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Tamil Nadu and the Union territory of Puducherry (Central), Chennai (except Yanam and Mahe).

18. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The civil districts of Nagpur, Bhandara, Akola, Amaravati, Wardha, (Central), Nagpur Buldhana, Jalgaon, Chandrapur, Beed, Nanded, Gadchiroli, Parbhani, Latur, Yeotmal, Dharashiv, Gondia, Washim and Hingoli in the State of Maharashtra.

19. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner National Capital Territory of Delhi. (Central), Delhi

20. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Bihar and the civil districts of Garhwa, Latehar, (Central), Patna Sahibganj, Pakur, Dumka, Palamu and Godda in the State of Jharkhand.

21. Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner The State of Chhattisgarh. (Central) Raipur

[F. No. P-11011/01/2026-WC]

TEJASWI S. NAIK, Jt.Secy.