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respondent Central Government any right to depart from
the obligation to pay the minimum rates of wages as
specified under the Minimum Wages Act.
The balance of convenience, according to me, lies in
favour of such unskilled labour engaged to execute work
under the Rural Employment Guarantee Act. When once
the work is executed and if they are not remunerated
Properly, the chances for their staking a claim for the
differential wages later on and the State to verify their
claim later on becomes difficult. Therefore, the balance of
convenience lies in their favor only. This apart, looked at
it from the angle of sub-section (2) of Section 6 of the
Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the minimum rates of
wages, as specified in the respective areas by the State
Government, would be holding field in the matter of
payment of remuneration to the unskilled workers engaged
for executing various works formulated in any scheme
under Section 4 of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act,
till the Central Government exercises the powers under
sub-section (1) of Section 6. Therefore, by suspending the
Operation of the impugned notification, sub-section (2) of
Section 6 of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act, would
spring automatically into operation, treating as if the
impugned notification has not been made by the Central
Government under sub-section (1) of Section 6.