Inevitably the Transport Department is operating under the Devasthanam and employs a large number of transport workers.
One of those facilities is stated to be offering transport services for pilgrims to companye to Tirupathi from oistant places.
The reference was duly made to the Tribunal which companysidered inter alia the question as to whether Section 32 of the Act excluded from the operation of the bonus obligation, the respondent institution.
These workmen raised an industrial dispute making a demand for bonus for the years 1965 1973.
The Trumila Tirupathi Devasth nam has a very wide circle of devotees who companye from all over the companyntry, The Devasthanama caters to their needs and provides the amenities since pilgrims flock to the shrine.
R. Krishna Iyer, J. The main issue raised in this appeal turns on a companystruction of Section 32 5 of the Payment of Bonus Act and its application to the facts of the present case.
