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Material services, involve an activity carried on through co-operation between employers and employees to provide the community with the use of something such as electric power, water, transportation, mail delivery, telephones and the like. In providing these services there may be employment of trained men and even professional men, but the emphasis is not on what these men do but upon the productivity of a service organised as an industry and commercially valuable, Mgmt. of Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735