against the management of Farakka Barrage Project since the management discharged sovereign function in the distribution or sharing of water of the Ganges pursuant ... contended, that it is an industry and not an establishment discharging sovereign function, in that event, the employees would be workmen and cannot claim more
functions. Even the revenue cannot have a case that the same function when performed by the State Government's Irrigation Department, it was sovereign ... function but when the same function is delegated to the assessee-Corporation by virtue of the VIDC Act , it ceases to be a sovereign function
workmen" by definition may not benefit by the status.
Sovereign functions, strictly understood, (alone) qualify for exemption, not the welfare activities or economic adventures ... undertaken by Government or statutory bodies.
Even in departments discharging sovereign functions, if there are units which are industries and they are substantially severable, then
Bangalore water
supply, case. Observed that "the dichotomy of sovereign and non-sovereign
function does not really exit - it would all depend ... three functions there may be
some others functions also regarding which a view could be taken that the
same too is a sovereign function
this court has held that the scarcity work is the sovereign function of the State and, therefore, provisions of the Industrial Disputes ... Board is not having power to function any sovereign function. The powers to function any sovereign function are enjoyed only by the State of Gujarat
flats in the year 2008 was
a glaring example of sovereign function. Any activity of the Government
relatable to sovereign functions is not included under ... does not
include any activity of the Government relatable to the sovereign
functions of the Government including all activities carried on by
the departments
entrusted to any private
entity, thereby rendering the said function, sovereign. Sovereign
functions, Mr. Mahajan points out, stand, even by Bangalore Water
Supply1, excluded from ... Sovereign functions of the State cannot be
included although one such functions has been aptly termed 'the
primary and inalienable functions of a constitutional government
capital outlay. According to Dr. Sathe, the state had
assigned a sovereign function of collecting toll which was akin to a
tax. Thus having assigned ... such sovereign function the state cannot
dilute the assignment. According to learned senior counsel in the
alternative, the petitioners have a vested right to collect
capital outlay. According to Dr. Sathe, the state had
assigned a sovereign function of collecting toll which was akin to a
tax. Thus having assigned ... such sovereign function the state cannot
dilute the assignment. According to learned senior counsel in the
alternative, the petitioners have a vested right to collect
sovereign
functions as defined in Section 54 of the Competition Act and the
functions performed by ICAI could not be termed as sovereign
functions ... sovereign functions.
However, even if it is accepted that the function of regulation of a
profession is relatable to the sovereign functions of the Government
