Question

Dala is a landless farm labourer who works on daily wages in Palampur. This means

he must regularly look for work. The minimum wages for farm labourers set by the

government is rupees 300 per day (March 2017) but Dala gets only rupees 160. Why Dala

gets only rupees 160 per day? Whereas government set the minimum wages for farm

labourers rupees 300 per day.


a) Dala is illiterate

b) Dala belongs to SCs

c) Heavy competition for work among farm labourers

d) Dala has no land to cultivate.​

Answer 1

Option c is correct ,heavy competition for work among farm labourers.

● DALA is a landless farmer who used to work in Palampur on daily wages.

● Instead government set minimum wages of Rs 300 but he get low wages of rs 160 because there was heavy competition among labour's and some of labour's get ready to work on of wages .

● Due to this hard competition he also got low wages otherwise if he refused to work on low wages, he won't get any work.