Gratuity for self finance private engineering college

It is felt that:

The schools under the control of local bodies were covered under the Act with effect from 8.1.1982. The employees of the Government schools are already entitled to gratuity under the extant rules of the Government governing gratuity and pension but the employees of the private schools were having no legal entitlement to gratuity. As gratuity is an old age retiral social security benefit, it was considered desirable to extend the benefit of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all employees employed in all educational institutions having ten or more persons. Accordingly, the Central Government extended the provisions of Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to the educational institutions employing 10 or more persons vide the Ministry of Labour and Employment Notification No. S.O. 1080 dated 3 April 1997. The Notification came into force w.e.f 19.4.1997, date when it was published in the Gazette of India.The definition of “employee” under section 2 (e) of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, was modified and the Government has made the amendment with retrospective effect from April 3, 1997.

Gazette Notification is enclosed.

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