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1999 (4) TMI 485 - SC - Companies LawWhether ex-municipal employees who were allotted to the Panchayat Service of the State Government had the status of Government servants? Held that:- The functions discharged by the Steel Authority of India Ltd. or by the Bokaro Steel Plant cannot be considered as essential functions of the Government. Amongst the objects of the Steel Authority of India Ltd. set out in the memorandum of association are to carry on in India or elsewhere the trade or business of manufacturing, prospecting, raising, operating, buying, selling, importing, exporting, purchasing or otherwise dealing in iron and steel of all qualities, grades and types. These objects also include rendering consultancy services to promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of iron and steel industry and to act as an agent of the Government/public sector financial institutions in the manner set out in the objects clause. In this context a worker holding the post of a khalashi or a meter reader is not subject to the control of the Central Government nor is the power of his appointment or removal exercised by the Central Government. Control over his work is exercised not by the Government, but by the Steel Authority of India Ltd. The respondents cannot, therefore, be considered as holding an office of profit under the Central Government.
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