EPF Act
(See Sections 2(i)-and 4)
Any industry engaged in the manufacture of any of the following, namely:
Cement.
Cigarettes.
Electrical, mechanical or general engineering products.
Iron and steel.
Paper.
Textiles (made wholly or in part of cotton or wool or jute or silk whether natural or artificial).
1. Matches.
2. Edible oils and fats.
3. Sugar.
4. Rubber and rubber products.
5. Electricity, including the generation, transmission and distribution thereof.
6. Tea.
7. Printing other than printing industry relating to newspaper establishments as defined in the Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955, including the process of composing types for printing, printing by letterpress, lithography, photogravure or other similar process or book binding.
8. Glass.
9. Stone-ware pipes.
10. Sanitary wares.
11. Electrical porcelain insulators of high and low tension.
12. Refractories.
13. Tiles.
1. Heavy and fine chemicals, including-
(i) Fertilizers,
(ii) Turpentine,
(iii) Rosin,
(iv) Medical and Pharmaceutical preparations,
(v) Toilet preparations,
(vi) Soaps,
(vii) Inks,
(viii) Intermediates, dyes, colour lakes and toners,
(ix) Fatty acids, and
(x) Oxygen, acetylene and carbon dioxide gases industry.
2. Indigo.
3. Lac including shellac.
4. Non-edible vegetable and animal oils and fats.
Mineral oil refining industry.
(i) Industrial and Power Alcohol industry; and
(ii) Asbestos Cement Sheets industry.
Biscuit-making industry including composite units making biscuits and products such as bread, confectionery and milk and milk powder.
Mica industry.
Plywood industry.
Automobile repairing and servicing industry.
Rice milling.
Flour milling.
Dal milling.
Starch industry.
Petroleum or natural gas exploration, prospecting, drilling or production.
Petroleum or natural gas refining.
Leather and leather products industry.
Stoneware jars.
Crockery.
The 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 fruits, juices and pulps,
(ii) canned and bottled vegetables,
(iii) frozen fruits and vegetables,
(iv) jams, jellies and marmalades,
(v) tomato products, ketchup 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,
Cashewnut industry.
Confectionery industry.
(1) Buttons.
(2) Brushes.
(3) Plastic and Plastic products.
(4) Stationery products.
Aerated water industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of aerated water, soft drinks or carbonated water.
Distilling and rectifying of spirits (not falling under industrial and power alcohol) and blending of spirits industry.
Paint and varnish industry.
Bone crushing industry.
Pickers industry.
Milk and milk products industry.
Non-ferrous metals and alloys in the form of ingots industry.
Bread industry.
Stemming, or re-drying of tobacco leaf industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the stemming, re-drying, handling, sorting, grading or packing of tobacco leaf.
Agarbattee (including Dhoop and Dhoop battee) industry.
Coir (excluding the spinning sector) industry.
Tobacco industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of cigars, zarda, snuff, Quivam and Guraku from tobacco.
Paper products industry.
Licensed salt industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of salt for which a licence is necessary and which has land not less than 4.05 hectares.
‘Linoleum industry ‘ and ‘Indoleum industry’.
Explosives industry.
Jute baling or pressing industry.
Fireworks and percussion cap works industry.
Tent making industry.
Ferro-manganese industry.
Ice or ice-cream industry.
Winding of thread and yarn reeling industry.
Cotton ginning, baling and pressing industry.
Katha making industry.
Beer manufacturing industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of the product of alcoholic fermentation of a mash in potable water of malted barley and hops, or of hops concentrated with or without the addition of other malted or unmalted cereals or other carbohydrate preparations.
Beedi industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in manufacture of beedis.
Ferro-chrome Industry.
Diamond cutting Industry.
Myrobalan extract powder, Myrobalan extract solid and Vegetable tannin blended extract industries.
Brick Industry, that is to say any industry engaged in the manufacture of Bricks.
All industries based on asbestos as principal raw material.
Industries manufacturing iron ore pellets.
Explanation.--In this Schedule, without prejudice to the ordinary meaning of expressions used therein, --
(a) the expression “Electrical, mechanical or general engineering products” includes--
(1) machinery and equipment for the generation, transmission, distribution or measurement of electrical energy and motors including cables and wires,.
(2) telephones, telegraph and wireless communication apparatus,
(3) electric lamps (not including glass bulbs),
(4) electric fans and electrical domestic appliances,
(5) storage and dry batteries,
(6) radio receivers and sound reproducing instruments,
(7) machinery used in industry (including textile machinery) other than electrical machinery and machine tools,
(8) boilers and prime movers, including internal combustion engines, marine engines and locomotives,
(9) machine tools, that is to say, metal and wood working machinery,
(10) grinding wheels,
(11) ships,
(12) automobiles and tractors,
(13) bolts, nuts and rivets,
(14) power driven pumps,
(15) bicycles,
(16) hurricane lanterns,
(17) sewing and knitting machines,
(18) mathematical and scientific instruments,
(19) products of metal rolling and re-rolling,
(20) wires, pipes, tubes and fittings,
(21) ferrous and non-ferrous castings,
(22) safes, vaults and furniture made of iron or steel or steel alloys,
(23) cutlery and surgical instruments,
(24) drums and containers,
(25) parts and accessories of products specified in items 1 to 24;
(b)
the expression “Iron and Steel” includes
pig iron, ingots, blooms, billets and rolled or
re-rolled products into basic forms and tool and alloy steel ;
(c) the expression “Paper” includes pulp, paperboard and strawboard ;
(d) the expression 'textiles' includes the products of carding, spinning, weaving, finishing and dying yarn and fabrics, printing, knitting and embroidering.