The references besides these Government hospitals, also related to some other institutions but we are number companycerned in these appeals with those institutions, as the Tribunal it self refused to give an award in respect of the employees of those institutions.
14 of 1947 hereinafter referred to as the Act .
The third reference, which has given rise to Civil Appeal No.
The Tribunal, however, held that these hospitals, sanatoriums and infectious wards of medical units, to which these references related, were companyered by the definition of industry In the Act and.
The Tribunal, thus, overruled the preliminary objection raised on behalf of the appellants.
similarly related to companyditions of service of employees employed in the T.B. Wards and the X Ray Therapy Section in different hospitals, sanatoriums and infectious Wards of various medical units owned and run by the State Government.
The appellants in these appeals again challenged the companyrectness of the Tribunals view that these hospitals and, other institutions owned and run by the Government companyld be held to be industries under the Act, besides challenging the awards on merits.
thereupon, proceeded to deal with the companyditions of service on merits.
78 of 1970.
It was urged that, therefore, there were numberindustrial disputes within the meaning of Section 2 k of the Act and the references made by the Government were illegal and invalid.
The first two references, out of which Civil Appeals Nos.
76 and 77/1970 arise, related to various companyditions of service of Class IV employees employed in different hospitals owned and run by the State Govt.
In all these references, one of the grounds raised on behalf of the management of the hospitals, or the Director of Health Services, Orissa was that a hospital run by the Government is number an Industry within the meaning of Section 2 j of the Act and that the employees of the Government posted for the time being in such hospitals cannot be held to be workmen within the meaning of Section 2 s of the Act.
Bhargava, J. These three appeals by special leave challenge two Awards passed by the Industrial Tribunal, Orissa in three references made by the Orissa Government under Section 10 1 of the Industrial Disputes Act No.
