The government will set an advisory board to fix minimum wages for various sectors applicable across the country, a senior official of the Labour Ministry said.

“The government would constitute an Advisory Board to fix the National Minimum Wages for employees and such wages differ and vary sectorally as well as regionally across the country as per requirements, skills and nature of jobs with the enforcement of proposed Labour Code on Wages 2017,” RK Gupta, the Joint Secretary in the Labour Ministry, said in a statement.