GANGADHARA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE Employees State Insurance Act, was passed in 1948. Its object was to provide benefits to the employees in case of sickness, maternity and employment injury and to make provision for certain other matters in relation thereto. It was made applicable in the first instance, to all factories including factories belonging to the Government other than seasonal factories. Sub-section (5) of Section 1 of the Employees State insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act ) reads as follows:"the appropriate Government may, in consultation with the corporation and where the appropriate Government is a State government, with the approval of the Central Government, after giving six months notice of its intention of so doing by notification in the official Gazette extend the provisions of this Act or any of them, to any other establishment or class of establishments industrial, commercial, agricultural or otherwise. ". A reading of this sub-section shows that the State government can extend the provisions of the Act, or any of them to a class of establishments. But, it can do so, in consultation with the Employees State Insurance corporation, with the approva

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