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(4) Any employee who finds his name not entered in the list referred to in sub-rule (2) or finds that the entries have not been made correctly or finds that though entries regarding his service have been made correctly but he has not attested the entries in the register of workmen inform 1 may make a representation to the Inspector concerned. The Inspector after examining the representation or after making enquiries may issue suitable directions to the employer for the rectification of the register in Form 1 or for the issue of orders conferring permanent status to the workman concerned. "

11. The definition of "workman" in Section 2 (4), the language used in Section 3 (1) of the Act and Rule 6 (4) show that it is for the individual employee to make a representation in Form I to the Inspector concerned. Thereafter, the Inspector after examining the representation and after making enquiries, issue suitable directions to the employer for the rectification of the register in Form I or issue orders conferring permanent status to the workman concerned. However, as rightly argued by Mr. S. Ayyathuri, nowhere there is any prohibition or restriction involving the Union for the cause of individual workman. In other words, if the required materials, namely details regarding number of days the workmen worked in an industrial establishment, the year on which they were asked to work and other details and the same are substantiated before the authority, it is for the authority to decide and issue suitable direction to the employer either for rectification of the register in Form I or order conferring permanent status to the workmen concerned. Inasmuch it is the required details that has to be placed and substantiated before the authority and not otherwise, accordingly, I hold that the application made by the Tiruchengode-Sankari Labour Union through its Secretary claiming permanent status in respect of the workmen mentioned in the annexure to the said petition is maintainable. In the Division Bench as well as before the Supreme Court though it is stated that against the order of termination it was for the employees to seek their remedies in the manner known to law, the Court had no occasion to consider similar question whether the Union can make an application on behalf of certain workmen for conferment of permanent status under Section 3 (1) of the Act. Inasmuch as the above enactment is beneficial legislation intended to safe guard the interest of the workmen, the same has to be interpreted in such a manner.