• The expert committee was to determine the methodology for fixing the national minimum wage.
• The recommendations could form the basis for a national minimum wage in the country covering all workers- irrespective of their skills, sectors, occupations and rural-urban locations.

 Recommendations of the Committee:

• Additional house rent allowance, averaging up to Rs 55 per day, for urban workers over and above the national minimum wage.
• The single value of the national minimum wage for India should be set at Rs 375 per day or Rs 9,750 per month.
• Alternatively, setting the national minimum wage for five different regions with diverse socio-economic and labour market situations.
• Nationally representative food basket for all regions should be used instead of estimating and using regional representative food baskets for each of the five regions.
• Adopting an approach that would focus on a balanced diet rather than merely its calorie intake that should not only concentrate on the minimum requirement of calories but also on the minimum requirement of protein and fats.