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The question in this appeal is whether the company's premises at Eluru constitute a factory. Section 2(m) defines factory. Under s. 2(m) factory means any premises including the precincts thereof "Whereon twenty or more workers are working, or I were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid of power, or is ordinarily so carried on." It is not disputed that more than 20 persons were working on the premises. The points in issue are : (1) whether those persons were "workers"; and (2) whether any manufacturing process was being carried on therein.