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2005 (5) TMI 612 - SC - Indian LawsWhether `social forestry' department of State, which is a welfare scheme undertaken for improvement of the environment, would be covered by the definition of ``Industry'' under S. 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947? Held that:- This Court must, therefore, reconsider where the line should be drawn and what limitations can and should be reasonably implied in interpreting the wide words used in section 2(j). That no doubt is rather a difficult problem to resolve more so when both the legislature and executive are silent and have kept an important amended provision of law dormant on the statute book. We do not consider it necessary to say anything more and leave it to the larger Bench to give such meaning and effect to the definition clause in the present context with the experience of all these years and keeping in view the amended definition of `industry' kept dormant for long 23 years. Pressing demands of the competing sectors of employers and employees and the helplessness of legislature and executive in bringing into force the Amendment Act compel us to make this reference. Let the cases be now placed before Hon'ble Chief Justice of India for constituting a suitable larger Bench for reconsideration of the judgment of this Court in the case of Bangalore Water, (1978 (2) TMI 204 - SUPREME COURT).
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