EPF Act

LIST OF INDUSTRIES/CLASSES OF ESTABLISHMENTS IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE STATUTORY RATE HAS BEEN ENHANCED UNDER THE FIRST PROVISO TO SECTION 6

S.O.  360(E), dated 17th May, 1990 – IN exercise of the powers confirmed by the first proviso to Section 6 of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act. 1952 (19 of 1952), the Central Government hereby specifies, with effect from the 1st day of June, 1989, every establishment in the industries specified in the Schedule annexed hereto and the classes of establishment in the Industries specified in the said Schedule, as the establishments and classes of establishments to which the said proviso shall apply :

Provided that nothing in this notification shall apply to :-

i.                     Any establishment in which less than 50 persons are employed :

ii.                  Any  sick Industries  company, as defined in clause (o) of sub-section (1) of Section  3 of the  Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions)  Act, 1985 (1 of 1986),  and declared as such by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction established  under Section 4 of that Act, for  the period  commencing on and form the date reference in the  board and ending either on the  date by which the net  worth of  the  said company becomes positive in terms of the orders passed under sub-section (2) of Section 17 or on the  last date of implementation of the scheme sanctioned under Section 18 of the At, as the case  may  be;

iii.                Any  other establishment which has at the end of any financial year accumulated losses equal to or exceeding its entire net worth, that is,  the sum  total of paid-up  capital and free reserves and  has also suffered cash losses in such financial year and the financial year immediately  preceding such financial year.

Explanation.--- For  the  purposes of clause (iii), “Cash loss” means loss as computed without providing for deprecation.

SCHEDULE

 

NAME OF INDUSTRY ENGAGED THE MANUFACTURE OF THEFOLLOWING PRODUCTS OR CLASS OF ESTABLISHMENTS

 

Sl. No

1.                  Cement.


2.                  Cigarettes.

3.                  Electrical mechanical or general engineering products.

4.                  Iron and Steel.

5.                  Matches  [other than hand-made matches.]

 

6.                  Edible oils  and fats, including vanaspati.

 

7.                  Sugar.

 

8.                  Rubber and rubber products.

 

9.                  Electricity including the generation, transmission and distribution thereof.

 

10.              Tea.

 

11.              Printing including the process of composing types for printing, printing by letterpress, lithography, photogravure or other similar process or bookbinding.

 

12.              Glass.

 

13.              Stoneware pipes.

 

14.              Sanitarywares.

 

15.              Electrical porcelain insulators of high and low  tension.

 

16.              Refractories.

 

17.              Tiles

 

18.              Heavy and fine chemicals including the following :

 

(a)                Fertilisers;

(b)               Turpentine;

(c)                Resin;

(d)               Medical and pharmaceutical preparations;

(e)                Toilet preparations;

(f)                 Soaps;

(g)                Inks;

(h)                Intermediates, dyes, colour, lacs and toners;

(i)                  Fatty acids; and

(j)                 Oxygen, acetylene and carbon dioxide gases.

 

19.              Indigo.

 

20.              Lac including shellac.

 

21.              Non-edible vegetable and animal oils  and fats.

 

22.              Mineral oil  refining.

 

23.              Industrial and power alcohol.

 

24.              Asbestos cement sheets.

 

25.              Biscuit making  industry, including composite units making biscuits and products, and as bread,  confectionery  and milk  powder.

 

26.              Mica.

 

27.              Plywood.

 

28.              Automobile repairing and servicing.

 

29.              Rice milling.

 

30.              Flour milling.

 

31.              Dal milling.

 

32.              Starch.

 

33.              Petroleum or natural gas exploration, prospecting, drilling, production or refining.

 

34.              Leather and leather products.

 

35.              Stoneware Jars.

 

36.              Crockery.

 

37.              Fruit and vegetable preservation industry, that is to say , any industry which is engaged in  the preparation or production of any of the following articles, namely:

(i)                  canned  and bottled vegetables;

(ii)                canned and bottle fruits and pulps;

(iii)               frozen fruit and vegetables;

(iv)              Jams, jellies and  marmalades;

(v)                Tomato products,  ketchups and sauces;

(vi)              Squashes, crushes, cordials and ready- to-serve beverages or any other beverages  containing fruit juice or fruit pulp;

(vii)             Preserved, candied and crystallised fruits and peels;

(viii)           Chutneys;

(ix)              Any other  unspecified item  relating to the preservation or canning of fruits and vegetables.

 

38.              Confectionery.

 

39.              Buttons.

 

40.              Brushes.

 

41.              Plastic and plastic products

 

42.              Stationery products.

 

43.              Aerated water. Soft drinks or carbonated water.

 

44.              Distilling and rectifying   of spirits (not falling under industrial and power alcohol) and blending of spirits.

 

45.              Paint and varnish.

 

46.              Bone crushing.

 

47.              Pickers.

 

48.              Milk and milk products.

 

49.              Non-ferrous metals  and alloy in the  form of ingots.

 

50.              Stemming, redrying, handling, sorting, grading or packing, of tobacco leaf.

 

51.              Agarbattee (including dhoop and  dhoop battee).

 

52.              Tobacco Industry that is an industry engaged in the manufacturing of cigars,  zarda, snuff, quivam and guraku form tobacco.

 

53.              Paper including hand- made paper and other  paper  products.

 

54.              Licensed salt.

 

55.              Linoleum and Indoleum.

 

56.              Explosives.

 

57.              Fireworks  and  percussion cap works.

 

58.              Tent making.

 

59.              Ferro-manganese.

 

60.              Ice and ice cream.

 

61.              Winding of thread and yarn reeling.

 

62.              Beer manufacturing.

 

63.              Ferro Chrome.

 

64.              Diamond cutting.

 

65.              Myrobalan extract powder, myrobalan  extract solid and vegetable  tanning blended extract.

 

66.              Plantations:

(a)                Tea (other than tea plantations in the State of Assam);

(b)               Coffee;

(c)                Cardamom;

(d)               Paper; and

(e)                Rubber.

 

67.              Mines :

(a)                Bauxite;

(b)               China Clay;

(c)                Chromite;

(d)               Diamond;

(e)                Dolomite;

(f)                 Graphite;

(g)                Iron Ore;

(h)                Lignite;

(i)                  Limestone;

(j)                 Magnesite ;

(k)               Manganese; and

(l)                  Mica.

 

68.              Coffee curing establishments.

 

69.              Newspaper establishments, as defined in the Working Journalists (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955.

 

70.              Road motor transport establishments;

 

71.              Cane farms, owned by the  owner or occupier of a sugar factory or cultivated by  such owner or occupier or any person on his behalf.

 

72.              Hotels.

 

73.              Restaurants.

 

74.              Establishments engaged in the storage or transport or distribution of petroleum or natural gas or products of either  petroleum  or natural gas.

 

75.              Cinemas including preview theatres, film  studios, film production concerns, distribution concerns dealing with exposed films and film  processing laboratories.

 

76.              Trading  and Commercial establishments engaged in the  purchase, sale or storage of any goods,  including establishments of exporters, importers, advertisers commission agents and brokers and commodity and stock exchanges,  but not  including banks of warehouses established under any Central of  State Act.

 

77.              Establishments  engaged  in the processing  or treatment of wood including manufacture of hardboard or chipboard, jute or textile wooden accessories, cork products, wooden furniture, wooden sports goods, cane or bamboo products battery separators.

 

78.              Saw Mills, wood  seasoning kilns, wood preservation plants and wood  workshops.

 

79.              Laundry and laundry service.

 

80.              Theatres where dramatic  performances, or other forms  of entertainments are held and where payment is required to be  made  for admission  as audience or spectators.

 

81.              Societies, club or associations which provide board or lodging  or both or facility for  amusement or any other service to any  of their members or to any of  their guests on payment.

 

82.              Companies, Societies, Associations, Clubs or Troupes which  give any exhibition of acrobatic or other performances or both, in any arena circular or otherwise or perform or permit any other form of  entertainment in any  place, other than  a theatre and require payment for  admission into such exhibition or entertainment as spectators or audience.

 

83.              Canteens.

 

84.              Attorneys, as defined in the Advocated Act (25 of 1961).

 

85.              Chartered or registered accountants, as defined in Chartered Accountants Act,  1949 (38 of 1949).

 

86.              Cost and Work Accountants within the meaning of the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 (23 of 1959).

 

87.              Engineer and engineering contractors, not  being exclusively engaged in building and construction industry.

 

88.              Architects.

 

89.              Medical  practitioners and medical specialists.

 

90.              Travel agencies engaged in (i) booking of international air and sea passages and other travel arrangement, (ii)  booking  of internal  air and mail  passages and other travel arrangements, and (iii)  forwarding and clearing of cargo form and to overseas and within India.

 

91.              Forwarding agencies engaged in the  collection, packing, forwarding or delivery of any  goods  including  car loading, break-bulk service and  foreign freight service.

 

92.              Stone  quarries producing roof and floor and slabs dimension stones, monumental stones and mosaic chips.

 

93.              Banks doing business  in one State or Union Territory and having no branches or departments outside the State or Union Territory.

 

94.              Establishments engaged in sorting, clearing and testing of cotton waste  industry.

 

95.              Garments making factories.

 

96.              Establishment  which  are factories engaged in the manufacture of glue and gelatine.

 

97.              Establishments engaged in fish processing  and non-vegetable  food preservation industry including  bacon factories and pork  processing plants.

 

98.              Financial establishments (other than  banks, doing business in more than one State or Union  Territory, Unit Trust of India, Agricultural Refinance Corporations, Industrial Development Bank of India, Industrial Finance Corporation of India and State Finance Corporations) engaged in the  activities of borrowing, lending, advancing of money and dealing with  other  monetary  transactions with a view to earn interest.

 

99.              Textiles (made wholly or in part of cotton  or wool or silk  whether natural or artificial).