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Section 10 in The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 [Entire Act]
Mahesh Bhargawa vs State Of M.P. And Ors. on 24 February, 1993
7. In the present case so far as the question that whether MP state
Women's Commission falls within the definition of industry is concerned,
some analogy can be drawn by the status of MP State Legal Services
Authority which is also performing the advisory work in the work of legal
assistance. A Division Bench of this court in the case of Mahesh Bhargava v.
State of MP and others reported in 1993 MPLJ 586 has held that the activity
of State Legal Services Authority (then called as MP Legal Aid and Legal
Advice Board) is a welfare activity but it does not qualify for
exemption from definition of industry only on the ground that it was
constituted in pursuance to Directive Principles of State Policy. It was held
by the Division Bench that sovereign functions have to be strictly understood
and then only they would qualify for exemption but the welfare activities by
Government or statutory bodies cannot be said to be sovereign functions of
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the State so as to qualify for exemption from scope of Section 2(j) of I.D.
Act.
Article 310 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Bangalore Water-Supply & Sewerage ... vs R. Rajappa & Others on 21 February, 1978
13. Applying the aforesaid ratio in the case of Bangalore Water
Supply (supra), once the commission employees the employees, then to the
extent of employing the employees for discharging the menial, ministerial or
administrative functions, the commission cannot wriggle out of mandatory
provisions of ID Act 1947. Therefore, this court upholds the findings of the
Labour Court that the MP State Women's Commission is an industry within
definition of section 2-j so far as its obligations towards the employees
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which its employs are concerned. It is further noted by this Court that the
findings as contained in the award in paragraph 7 do not match with the
finding as summarised in the tabular form in paragraph. However, looking to
the detailed discussion in paragraph 7, it is seen that the Labour Court has
held the Commission to be an industry and the summarised reply to issue
number 3 in paragraph 5 in tabular form seems to be in clerical mistake.
Article 311 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Article 309 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
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