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| are 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.

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