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- The opening line of this judgment is –
- The question raised in this appeal is drawing attention of this Court since very inception when Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was enacted and even after the passage of more than 50 years, issue remains in the fertile field of it yielding fresh crops time and again because of wide vaporous definition of the word “industry” under the said Act.
- This wide definition has given an opportunity to both employer and employee for raising issues, one trying to pull out of this definition, to be out of the clutches of the said Act, other bringing within it, to receive benefit under it. Because of width of the periphery of the word “industry” there is tug of war repeatedly between the two, in spite of various decisions of this Court.
- The Bangalore Water Supply case also notes as follows –
- In view of the difficulty experienced by all of us in defining the true denotation of the term “industry” and divergence of opinion in regard thereto-as has been the case with this bench also- we think, it is high time that the Legislature steps in with a comprehensive bill to clear up the fog and remove the doubts and set at rest once for all the controversy which crops up from time to time in relation to the meaning of the aforesaid term rendering it necessary for larger benches of this Court to be constituted which are driven to the necessity of evolving a working formula to cover particular cases.
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