Employees’ provident funds and miscellaneous provisions act, 1952 -

Any industry engaged in the manufacture of any of the following, namely:

Any industry engaged in the manufacture 1*** 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).
2[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 (45 of 1955), 
including the process of composing types for printing, printing by letter press, 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.]
3[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 lakhs and toners,
(ix) Fatty acids, and
1[(x) Oxygen, acetylene, and carbon-dioxide gases industry.]
2. Indigo.
3. Lac including shellac.
4. Non-edible vegetable and animal oils and fats.]
2[Mineral oil refining industry.]
3[(i) Industrial and Power Alcohol industry; and
(ii) Asbestos Cement Sheets industry.]
4[Biscuit making industry including composite units making biscuits and products such as bread, 
confectionery and milk and milk powder.]
5[Mica industry.]
6[Plywood industry.]
7[Automobile repairing and servicing industry.]
8[1. Rice milling.
2. Flour milling.
3. Dal milling.]
9[Starch industry.]
10[1. Petroleum or natural gas exploration, prospecting, drilling or production.
2. Petroleum or natural gas refining.]
11[Leather and leather products industry.]
12[1. Stone-ware jars.
2. Crockery.]
13[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, ketchups and sauces,
(vi) squashes, crushes, cordials and ready-to-serve beverages or any other beverages containing 
fruits juice or fruit pulp,
(vii) preserved, candied andcrystallised fruits and peals,
(viii) chutneys,
(ix) any other unspecified item relating to the preservation or canning of fruits and vegetables.]
1[Cashewnut Industry.]
2[Confectionery Industry.]
3[1. Buttons.
2. Brushes.
3. Plastic and Plastic products.
4. Stationery products.]
4[The aerated water industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of aerated water, 
soft drinks or carbonated water.]
5[The distilling and rectifying of spirits (not falling under industrial and power alcohol) and blending 
of spirits industry.]
6[The Paint and Varnish Industry.]
7[Bone Crushing Industry.]
8[Pickers Industry.]
9[Milk and milk products Industry.]
10[Non-ferrous metals and alloys in the form of ingots industry.]
11[Bread Industry.] 
1[Stemming or redrying of tobacco leaf industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the stemming, 
redrying, handling, sorting, grading or packing of tobacco leaf].
2[Agarbatee (including dhoop and dhoopbatee) industry.]
3[Coir (excluding the spinning sector) Industry.]
4[Tobacco industry, that is to say, any industry engaged in the manufacture of Cigars, Zarda, snuff, 
qivam and guraku from tobacco.]
5[Paper products Industry.]
6[Any industry engaged in manufacture of salt for which a licence is necessary and which has land not 
less than7
[4.05 hectares].
8[Linoleum Industry and Indoleum Industry.]
9[Explosive Industry.]
10[Jute bailing or pressing Industry.]
11[Fire works and percussion cap works Industry.]
12[Tent making Industry.]
13[Ferro-manganese Industry.]
14[Ice of ice-cream Industry.]
15[Winding of thread and yarn reeling Industry.]
16[Cotton Ginning, Bailing and Pressing Industry.]
17[Katha making Industry.] 
1[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 on other malted or unmalted cereals or other carbohydrate preparations.]
2[Beedi industry.]
3[Ferro Chrome Industry.]
4[Diamond Cutting Industry.]
5[Industries engaged in the manufacture of Myrobalan Extract Power, Myrobalan Extracts Solid and 
Vegetable Tanin Blended Extract.]
6[Brick Industry.]
7[Industries based on asbestos as principal raw material.
8[Exaplanation.—In this Schedule, without prejudice to the ordinary meaning of the experssions used 
therein,—
(a) the expression “Electrical, mechanical or general engineering products” incl 

(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 toll 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 
dyeing yarn and fabrics, printing, knitting and embroidering.]