Legality of E.S.I. Contribution

If the work is done through employees of the contractor ( immediate employer) outside the premises of the principal employer and principal employer does not have any control or supervision over such work or employeeds then such employees of the immediate employer are not the employees of the Principal employer. This is clear from the definition of employee in the Act  2(9) . You can go through the leading judgement on this issue  Rajkamal Transport v ESIC 1996(2) LLJ 435 (SC)  

 I am agree with Mr Harbhajan Singh Jee .

The clarification by  Mr Harbhajan Singh shall be more valid if their is no functional integrality of the contractor's firm with the Principal firm, meaning thereby that the contractor's firm does and can exist independent of the principal's firm having its own resources, financial and managerial setup and not working under the direct or indirect control of the principal firm.

SC Verma, Advocate

Dear Tushar,

please go through the said attached file in which I think you will get your reply.

An appreciable contribution by NAC. Thanks 

I am very thankfull to all of you for your precious advice/opinion.

But during the course of this question few more questions arose before me, i.e. for how many years a company is liable to keep it's records as per E.S.I.C. Act. or what is the time limit for the E.S.I.C to recover it's dues from the employer.