Kolkata, April 12: Wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees are likely to be constituted within this month, Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here today.
"I am trying to constitute the wage boards very soon," Fernandes told newspersons here.
Asked whether the wage boards would be constituted within this month, he answered in the affirmative.
The government had on December 18 decided to set up wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees under a common chairman to revise the pay structure of employees in newspaper industry.