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Working group, means the group constituted by the Reserve Bank for the purpose of considering proposals of export of goods and services on deferred payment terms or in execution of a turnkey project or a civil construction contract. [Foreign Exchange Management (Export of Goods and Services Regulations, 2000, Reg. 2 (x)]...
Planning Commission
Planning Commission, is a non-statutory body set up by a resolution of the Government of India in March 1950, in pursuance of declared objectives to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient exploitation of resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities to all for employment. It is essentially an advisory body and has neither constitutional nor statutory authority. It formulates plans for the development of the country. Sector wise working groups are set by the Commission for making recommendations on various policy matters. Advisory bodies are also setup for consulting other knowledgeable people especially non-official experts, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, 2nd Edn., 2005, p. 330....
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Equal pay for equal work
Equal pay for equal work, it does not mean that all the members of a cadre must receive the same pay packet irrespective of their seniority, source of recruitment, educational qualifications and various other incidents of service, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Sreenivasa Rao, (1989) 2 SCC 290.Article 39(d) of the Constitution proclaims 'equal pay for equal work for both men and women' as a Directive Principle of State Policy. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women means equal pay for equal work for everyone and as between the sexes. The Preamble to the Constitution declares the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic. Again the word 'Socialist' must mean some thing. Even if it does not mean to each according to his need it must at least mean 'equal pay for equal work'.'The principle of equal pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Pa...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
Alkali works
Alkali works, The Acts regulating alkali works, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 120-a temporary Act, made perpetual by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 36-and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 43, were consolidated and amended by the alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 37), s. 29 of which defined 'alkali work' as 'every work for the manufacture of alkali, sulphate of soda, or sulphate of potash in which muriatic acid gas is evolved,' and recently after further amend-ment in 1892, again consolidated with additional amendments by the Alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 14), by s. 27 of which the expression 'alkali work' means every work for-(a) the manufacture of sulphate of soda or sulphate of potash, or (b) the treatment of copper ores by common salt or other chlorides whereby any sulphate is formed, in which muriatic acid gas is evolved....
Working journalist
Working journalist, an ex-employee would be a 'working journalist'. It is clear that the definitions of a 'newspaper employee' and a 'working journalist' have to be construed in the light of and subject to the context requiring otherwise, Bennett Coleman and Co. (P) Ltd. v. Punya Priya Das Gupta, AIR 1970 SC 426: (1969) 2 SCC 1: (1970) 1 SCR 181. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 2(f)]Working journalist, means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such in, or in relation to, any newspaper establishment, and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographers and proof reader. An editor is expressly included in this definition, Management of Rashtradoot v. Rajasthan Working Journalist Union, (1971) 3 SCC 96. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditio...
Group
Group, means the Special Protection Group con-stituted under s. 4. [Special Protection Group Act, 1998 (34 of 1988), s. 2(c)]...
Member of the Group
Member of the Group, means a person who has been appointed to the Group by the prescribed authority whether before or after the commencement of this Act. [Special Protection Group Act, 1988 (34 of 1988), s. 2(d)]...
Work
Work, means any of the following works, namely:(i) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work;(ii) a cinematograph film;(iii) a sound recording. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (y)]The general words 'work' is limited to something material in the sense of buildings, structures etc., mere fencing a vacant plot is not within the expression 'work', Kantaben M. Amin v. SpecialLand Acquisition Officer, Baroda, AIR 1990 SC 103. [Defence of India Act, 1962, s. 36(5)]1. Physical and mental exertion to attain an end, esp. as controlled by and for the benefit of employer2. To act; to perform either physically or mentally, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1599Work, meant a structure or apparatus of some kind; an architectural or engineering structure, a build-ing edifice, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa, (2001) 4 SCC 661....
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