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Workman/industry/teacher, imparting of education which is the main function of teachers cannot be considered as skilled or unskilled manual work or supervisory work or technical work or clerical work. Imparting of education is in the nature and a mission or a noble vocation. Therefore, the teacher of the school was not a 'workman' though the school was an industry, in view of the definition of workman as it now stands, A. Sundarambal v. Govt. of Goa, Daman & Diu, AIR 1988 SC 1700: (1988) 4 SCC 42: (1988) Supp 1 SCR 604