Section 2(b) in The Collection Of Statistics Act, 1953
(b)"commercial concern" means a public limited company or a co--operative society or a firm or any other person or body of persons engaged in trade or commerce, and includes--(i)a concern engaged in banking or insurance;(ii)a financial corporation;(iii)a concern engaged in shipping and navigation;(iv)a concern engaged in the business of brokers dealing in shares, stocks and securities and commodities;(v)a concern engaged in the business of advertising consultants;(vi)a light railway;(vii)a concern engaged in road transport service;(viii)a concern engaged in air transport service;(ix)a rubber, tea, coffee or cinchona plantation;(x)a concern engaged in the business of forwarding and clearing agents;(xi)any other concern which, in the opinion of the Central Government, is a commercial concern and is declared to be such by that Government by notification in the Official Gazette, but does not include an industrial concern;
