JUDGMENT

Misra, J.-Leave granted.

2. The question raised in this appeal is drawing attention of this Court since very inception when Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was enacted and even after the passage of more than 50 years, issue remains in the fertile field of it yielding fresh crops time and again because of wide vaporous definition of the word "industry" under the said Act. We shall be referring about some of these cases in the later part of our judgment. This wide definition has given an opportunity to both employer and employee for raising issues, one trying to pull out of this definition, to be out of the clutches of the said Act, other bringing within it, to receive benefit under it. Because of width of the periphery of the word "industry" there is tug of war repeatedly between the two, in spite of various decisions of this Court. This situation has led this Court, in Bangalore Water-Supply & Sewerage Board, Etc. v. R. Rajappa & Ors.1 to record with anxiety and suggesting Legislature for bringing a comprehensive Bill to clear the fog. It records :

"In view of the difficulty experienced by all of us in defining the true denotation of the term "industry" and divergence of opinio