Rushi @ Ruchi Thapa vs Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd 2024 INSC 837

Motor Accident Compensation -Allowing appeal, Supreme Court noted: minimum wages payable to a skilled workman for quantifying the notional loss of earnings of the child. In this case, the High Court adopted the minimum wages payable to unskilled labour, i.e., ?169 per day, but there is no justification for the same as the appellant was a school-going child at the time of her accident. The minimum wages payable to a skilled workman, as per the Notification dated 01.03.2013 of the Government of Assam, stood at ?175 per day, which is more acceptable- Compensation enhanced.