Beedi workers entitled to compensation under the ECA: Telangana HC

Telangana High Court in Yeddandi Venkataiah vs. Prabhudas Kishore Das Tobacco Products Ltd. and Ors. CMA 2065/2002, while answering a question as to whether a ‘Beedi Roller’ is a workman within the definition of Section 2(n) of ECA observed that the activity of the deceased being the Beedi roller, clearly falls within the ambit of the term ‘workman’ as defined under Section 2(n) of the ECA read with Schedule-II of the ECA, which includes the person employed otherwise than in clerical capacity in any premises or within the precincts where the manufacturing process.

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