NEW DELHI: A wage board for newspaper and news industry employees will be constituted soon by the government.

Labour minister Oscar Fernandes told mediapersons that ''The Wage Board will be constituted in a few days without any further delay.''

''The government has already approved the constitution of two wage boards, one for working journalists and the other for non-journalist newspaper employees,'' the minister said.

This had been approved in accordance with Section 9 and 13(C) of working journalists and other newspaper employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955, he added.

The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a meet relating to the forthcoming 41st Indian Labour Conference beginning on 27 April which is to be inaugurated by prime minister Manmohan Singh.