JUDGMENT :

S.M. Subramaniam, J.

1. The Order, dated 19.12.2014 passed by the Respondent under Sections 14-B & 7-Q of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, is under challenge in the present Writ Petition.

2. The Writ Petitioner is the Tamil Nadu Khadi and Village Industries' Board.

3. The learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioner-Board made a submission that the Writ Petitioner-Board had already paid the contributions However, the interest as well as the damages alone are yet to be paid. The Writ Petitioner-Board has given permanent status to 68 workers, who all are working in the functioning Soap Units under time scale of pay as the Orders of the High Court in W.A. Nos. 662 to 664 of 2001, dated 23.11.2009. The Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, applies to all Permanent Employees of the Soap Units. The Respondent issued an Order on 30.8.2013, directing the Writ Petitioner-Board to pay the contributions for the period from 04/1983 to 03/2010, a sum of Rs. 18,30,968. Thereafter, the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner quantified the Interest as well as the damages to be paid and accordingly, directed the Writ Petitioner-Boa