\ IS vega the Rural Employment Guarantee Act; specified that the schedule or rates of wages for unskilled labour shall be so fixed for a person working for seven hours, would normally earn a wage equal to the wage rate, it left a specific indication as to what a person can earn for a seven hour schedule of work, to be the yardstick. If the notification issued under the Minimum Wages Act, prescribing the minimum wages, is meant for a schedule of work comprising of nine hours, which included a compulsory half-an-hour’s rest, the proportionate wage rate for a seven hour schedule should be taken as the minimum requirement, while fixing the wage rate under the Rural Employment Guarantee Act. If wages are paid less than the proportionate rate, then the very purpose of thrusting an obligation under Section 12 of the Minimum Wages Act, gets easily defeated. This apart, as was already noticed supra, an unskilled manual worker, if engaged to do the same nature of work other than under a scheme enunciated by the State Government under Section 4 of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act, such a pefson is bound to be paid proportionate wages, with reference to the wage rate specified under the 1948 Act. Therefore, by merely framing a Scheme, by the State Government under Section 4 of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act, for putting in place a social welfare measure, cannot give the 1%