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(3) Period of Training : Three years.

(4) Stipend : (a) Candidates qualifications s per (a) above Consolidated First Year : Rs. 100 p.m Second year: Rs. 110 p.m. Third year : Rs. 120 p.m.

(b) Candidates having qualifications as per

(b)above :

Consolidated: First year : Rs. 110 p.m Second and third year: Rs. 120 p.m. General: In addition to stipend, the apprentices will be eligible for free hostel accommodation, water charges, electricity and medical aid to the extent available at Gorakhpur in accordance with the rules governing this.

15. Counsel for the petitioner has then drawn attention of the court to the Scheme under the Apprentice Act, 1961 and submits that combined reading of Section 2(aa) read with Section 2(aaa) of Apprentice Act, 1961, means a person who is undergoing a course of training in an industry or establishment undergone in pursuance of a contract of apprenticeship under the prescribed terms and conditions which may be different for different categories of apprentices. It is then submitted that Section 13 of the Act provides that the employer shall pay to every apprentice during the period of apprenticeship training stipend and every apprentice undergoing apprentice ship training in a designated trade in an establishment is a trainee and not a worker and that he is excluded under Section 18(b) from the provisions of any law with respect to labour which shall not apply to or in relation to such apprentice.