Section 2A:
Appropriate Government
(a) "appropriate Government" means, -
(I) In relation to any Industrial Disputes concerning [* * ] any industry carried on by or under the authority of the Central Government [ * *] or by a railway company [or concerning any such controlled industry as may be specified in this behalf by the Central Government] [* * *] or in relation to an Industrial Dispute concerning [[a Dock Labour Board established under Section 5-A of the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment ) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948), or the Industrial Finance Corporation of India established under Section 3 of the Industrial Finance Corporation Act, 1948 (15 of 1948), or the Employees State Insurance Corporation established under Section 3 of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 34 of 1948), or the Board of trustees constituted under Section 3-A of the Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948 (46 of 1948), or the Central Board of Trustees and the State Boards of Trustees constituted under Section 5-A and Section 5-B, respectively, of the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952), or the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under Section 3 of the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956), or the Oil and Natural Gas Commission established under Section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), or the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation established under Section 3 of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Act, 1961 (47 of 1961), or the Central Warehousing Corporation established under Section 3 of the Warehousing Corporations Act, 1962 (58 of 1962), or the Unit Trust of India established under Section 3 of the Unit Trust of India Act, 1963 (52 of 1963), or the Food Corporation of India established under Section 3, or a Board of Management established for two or more contiguous States under Section 16 of the Food Corporations Act, 1964 (37 of 1964), or the Airports Authority of India constituted under Section 3 of the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 (55 of 1994), or a Regional Rural Bank established under Section 3 of the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 (21 of 1976), or the Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation Limited or the Industrial Reconstruction Corporation of India Limited]], or [the Banking Service Commission established under Section 3 of the the Banking Service Commission Act, 1975, or ] [an air transport service or a banking or an insurance company, a mine, an oilfield] [a Cantonment Board,] or a major port, or any company in which not less than fifty-one percent of the paid up share capital capital is held by the Central Government, or any corporation not being a corporation referred to in this clause, established by or under any law made by Parliament, or the Central public sector undertaking, subsidiary companies set up by the principal undertaking and autonomous bodies owned or controlled by the Central Government and.
(II) In relation to any other Industrial Dispute, including the State public sector undertaking , subsidiary companies set up by the principal undertaking, and autonomous bodies owned or controlled by the State Government, the State Government; Provided that in the case of a dispute between a contractor and the contract labour employed through the contractor in any industrial establishment where such dispute first arose, the appropriate Government shall be the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, which has control over such industrial establishment.