| Industry-wise Number of Establishments and Subscribers Covered under Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 in India (2005-2006) | ||
| Industry/Class of Establishment | 2005-2006 | |
| No. of Establishments | No. of Members | |
| Cement | ||
| Cigarettes. | ||
| Electrical, mechanical or general engineering products. | ||
| Iron and steel | ||
| Paper1 | ||
| Textiles (made wholly or in part of cotton or wool or jute or silk whether natural or artificial). | ||
| Jute | ||
| Edible oils and fats2 | ||
| Sugar | ||
| Rubber and rubber products. | ||
| Electricity including generation, transmission and distribution thereof. | ||
| Tea (except in the State of Assam where the Govt. of Assam have instituted a separate Provident Fund Scheme for the industry including plantations) | ||
| Printing (other than printing industry relating to newspaper establishments as defined in the Working Journalist Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions Act, 1955) including the process of composing types of printing, printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure or similar process or book binding. | ||
| Stone-ware pipes | ||
| Sanitary wares | ||
| Electrical porcelain insulators of high and low tension. | ||
| Refractories. | ||
| Tiles | ||
| Matches. | ||
| Glass. | ||
| Note: Till 31st March, 1962 the Scheme was not applicable to the following : | ||
| Match factories having annual production of five lakh gross boxes of matches or less. | ||
| Such glass factories other than sheet glass shell factories as have an installed capacity of 600 tonnes per month or less | ||
| Heavy and fine chemicals including : | ||
| Fertilizers. | ||
| Turpentine. | ||
| Rosin. | ||
| Medical and pharmaceutical preparations. | ||
| Toilet preparations | ||
| Soaps. | ||
| Inks. | ||
| Intermediate dyes, colour lacs and toners. | ||
| Fatty acids and oxygen, acetylene and corbondioxide gases : ( The Act was actually enforced in this industry with effect from the 31st July,1957). | ||
| Indigo | ||
| Lac including shellac | ||
| Non-edible vegetable and animal oils and fats | ||
| Newspaper establishments. | ||
| Mineral Oil | ||
| Tea Plantations (Other than the tea plantations in the State of Assam) | ||
| Coffee plantations | ||
| Rubber plantations | ||
| Cardamom plantations | ||
| Pepper plantations | ||
| Mixed plantations | ||
| Iron ore mines | ||
| Manganese mines | ||
| Limestone mines | ||
| Gold mines | ||
| Industrial and power alcohol | ||
| Asbestos cement sheets | ||
| Coffee curing establishments. | ||
| Biscuit making industry (including composite units making biscuits, such as bread, confectionery and milk powder) | ||
| Road motor transport establishments | ||
| Mica industry. | ||
| Mica mines. | ||
| Plywood | ||
| Automobile repairing and servicing. | ||
| Rice milling. | ||
| Dal milling. | ||
| Flour milling. | ||
| Starch. | ||
| Hotels. | ||
| Restaurants | ||
| Establishments engaged in the storage or transport or distribution of petroleum or natural gas or products of either petroleum or natural gas. | ||
| Petroleum or natural gas exploration, prospecting, drilling or production. | ||
| Petroleum or natural gas refining | ||
| Cinemas (including pre-review theatres | ||
| Film production. | ||
| Film studios. | ||
| Distribution concerns dealing with exposed films. | ||
| Film processing Laboratories. | ||
| Leather and leather products. | ||
| Stoneware jars | ||
| Crockery | ||
| Every cane farm owned by the owner or occupier of a sugar factory or cultivated by such owner or occupier or any person on his behalf. | ||
| Every trading and commercial establishment engaged in the purchase, sale or storage of any goods including establishments of exporter, importers, advertisers, commission agents and brokers and Commodity and stock exchanges but not including banks or warehouse establishments established under any Central or State Act. | ||
| Fruit and Vegetable preservation | ||
| Cashewnuts | ||
| Establishments engaged in the processing or treatment of wood including manufacturing of hardboard or chipboard, jute or textile, related wooden accessories, cork products, wooden furniture, wooden sports goods, cane or bamboo products, wooden battery separators. | ||
| Saw mills | ||
| Wood seasoning kilns | ||
| Wood preservation plants | ||
| Wood workshops. | ||
| Bauxite mines. | ||
| Confectionery. | ||
| Laundry and laundry services. | ||
| Buttons | ||
| Brushes. | ||
| Plastic and plastic products | ||
| Stationery products. | ||
| Theatre where dramatic performance or other forms of entertainments are held and where payment is required to be made for admission as audience or spectators. | ||
| Societies, clubs or associations which provide board or lodging or both or facility for amusement or any other service to any of their members or to any of their guests on payment | ||
| Companies, societies, associations, clubs or troupes which give any exhibition or acrobatic or other performances or both in any arena, circular or otherwise or perform or permit any other form of entertainment in any place, other than a theatre, and require payments for admission into such exhibition or entertainment as spectators | ||
| Canteens | ||
| Aerated water, soft drinks of carbonated water | ||
| Distilling and rectifying of spirit (not falling under industrial and power alcohol) and blending of spirits | ||
| Paints and varnishes | ||
| Bone crushing | ||
| Pickers | ||
| China clay mines | ||
| Attorneys as defined in the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) | ||
| Chartered or Registered Accountants as defined in the Chartered Accountantsâ?T Act, 1949 (38 of 1949) | ||
| Cost and Works Accountants within the meaning of the Cost and Works Accountantsâ?T Act, 1959 (23 of 1959) | ||
| Engineers and Engineering Contractors not being exclusively engaged in building and construction industry | ||
| Architects | ||
| Medical Practitioners and Medical Specialist | ||
| Milk and milk products | ||
| Travel agencies engaged in: | ||
| Booking of international air and sea passages and other travel arrangements, | ||
| Booking of internal air and mail passages and other travel arrangements; and | ||
| Forwarding and cleaning of cargo from and to overseas and within India | ||
| Forwarding agencies engaged in the collection, packing, forwarding or delivery of any goods including cargo loading, break-bulk service and foreign freight service | ||
| Non-ferrous metals and alloys in the form in ingots | ||
| Bread | ||
| Stemming, redrying, handling, sorting, grading or packing of tobacco leaf | ||
| Agarbattee (including dhoop and dhoop battee) | ||
| Magnesite mines | ||
| Coir (excluding the spinning sector) | ||
| Stone quarries producing roof and floor slabs, dimension stones, monumental stones and mosaic chips) | ||
| Bank doing business in one State or Union Territory and having no departments or branches outside that State or Union territory | ||
| Tobacco industry that is to say any industry engaged in the manufacture of cigars, zarda, snuff, quivam and guraku from tobacco | ||
| Paper products | ||
| Licenced salt | ||
| Linoleum | ||
| Indoleum | ||
| Explosives | ||
| Jute baling or pressing | ||
| Fireworks and percussion capworks | ||
| Tent making | ||
| Barytes mines | ||
| Dolomite mines | ||
| Fireclay mines | ||
| Gypsum mines. | ||
| Kyanite mines | ||
| Siliminite mines. | ||
| Steatite mines. | ||
| Cinchona plantations. | ||
| Ferro manganese | ||
| Ice or ice-cream | ||
| Diamond mines | ||
| General insurance business | ||
| Establishments rendering expert service such as supplying of personnel advice on domestic or departmental enquiries, special services in rectifying pilferage, thefts and pay role irregularities to factories and establishments on certain terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the establishments and establishments rendering expert services | ||
| Factories engaged in winding of thread and yarn reeling | ||
| Railway booking agencies run by contractors or other private establishments on commission basis. | ||
| Cotton ginning, baling and pressing | ||
| Every mess, not being a military mess | ||
| Katha making | ||
| Establishments known as hospitals run by any individual association or institution | ||
| Beer manufacturing | ||
| Sorting, cleaning & teasing of cotton waste | ||
| Societies, clubs and associations which render service to their members, without charging any fees over and above the subscription fee or membership fee | ||
| Garments making factories | ||
| Agricultural farms, fruits or orchards, botanical gardens and zoological gardens | ||
| Soap-stone mines and establish-ments engaged in the grinding of soapstone | ||
| Apatite mines | ||
| Asbestos mines | ||
| Calcite mines | ||
| Ball-clay mines | ||
| Corundum mines | ||
| Emerald mines | ||
| Felspar mines | ||
| Silica (sand) mines | ||
| Quartz mines | ||
| Ochre mines | ||
| Chromite mines | ||
| Graphite mines | ||
| Fluorite mines | ||
| Establishments which are factories engaged in the manufacture of glue and gelatine | ||
| Stone quarries producing stone chips, stone sets, stone builders and ballasts | ||
| Establishments engaged in fish processing and non-vegetable food preservation industry including bacon factories and pork processing plants | ||
| Establishments engaged in manufacture of beedi | ||
| Financing establishments (other than banks) engaged in the activities of borrowing, lending, advancing of monetary transactions with a view to earn interest | ||
| Lignite mines | ||
| Ferro chrome | ||
| Diamond cutting | ||
| Quartsite mines | ||
| Inland water transport establishments | ||
| Building and construction | ||
| Manufacture of Myrobalan, extract powder, Myrobalan extract solid and vegetable tanning blended extract | ||
| Bricks | ||
| Establishments engaged in steve-doring, loading and unloading of ships | ||
| Establishments engaged in poultry farming | ||
| Establishments engaged in cattle-feed industry | ||
| Any university | ||
| Any college, whether or not affiliated to a University | ||
| Any school, whether or not recognised or aided by the Central or a State Govt. | ||
| Any scientific institution | ||
| Any institution in which research in respect of any matter is carried on | ||
| Any other institution in which activity of imparting knowledge or training is systematically carried on | ||
| All establishments dealing with asbestos as principal raw material | ||
| Iron ore pillets | ||
| Guar gum factories | ||
| Marble mines | ||
| Diamond saw mills | ||
| Courier Services | ||
| Aircraft or Aircraft Liasion | ||
| Cleaning & Sweeping | ||
| Total MIS | ||
