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Sukhdev Singh, Oil & Natural Gas ... vs Bhagat Ram, Association Of Clause Ii. ... on 21 February, 1975

As early as 1819 the Supreme Court of the United States in Mac Cullough v. Maryland held that the Congress has power to charter corporations as incidental to or in ald of government functions and, as pointed out by Mathew, J., in Sukhdev v. Bhagat Ram (supra) such federal corporations would ex-hypothesis be agencies of the Government. In Great Britain too, the policy of public administration through separate Corporation was gradually evolved and the conduct of basis industries through giant corporations has now become a permanent feature of public life. So far as India is concerned, the genesis of the emergence of corporations as instrumentalities or agencies of Government is to be found in the Government of India Resolution on Industrial Policy dated April 6, 1948 where it was stated inter alia that "management of State enterprise will as rule be through the medium of public corporation under the statutory control of the Central Government who will assume such powers as may be necessary to ensure this". It was in pursuane of the policy envisaged in this and subsequent resolutions on industrial policy that corporation were created by Government for setting up and management of public enterprises and carrying out other public functions,"
Supreme Court of India Cites 105 - Cited by 110 - K K Mathew - Full Document

Ramana Dayaram Shetty vs The International Airport Authority Of ... on 4 May, 1979

In case of R.D. Shetty v. International Airport Authority 1979(3) SCC 507 the Apex Court has held that "In the early days, when the Government had limited functions, it could operate effectively through natural persons constituting Its civil service and they were found adequate to discharge governmental functions, which were of traditional vintage. But as the tasks of the Government multiplied with the advent of the Welfare State, it began to be increasingly felt that the framework of civil service was not sufficient to handle the new tasks which were often specialised and highly technical character. The inadequacy of the civil service to deal with these new problems came to be realised and it became necessary to forge a new Instrumentality or administrative device for handling these new problems. It was in these circumstances and with a view to supplying this administrative need that the public corporation came into being as the third arm of the Government.
Supreme Court of India Cites 47 - Cited by 2519 - P N Bhagwati - Full Document
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