Confused About Factory Act vs. Engineering Industry? Seeking Clarity for Compliance!

We are a sheet metal fabrication unit with press machines predominantly in Pune, Maharashtra. It is unclear if our organization falls under the Factory Act or the Engineering Industry.

1) Could someone please help me clarify the difference between the two?

2) Could this be established by some authority, stating which industry I belong to, to ensure that I am compliant with the law?

You have started in the Engineering Industry, and once you continuously engage 10 or more workmen with the aid of power for 240 days, you will be covered under the Factories Act. The Factories Act prescribes and regularizes the plant, machinery layout, safety, and welfare provisions. For wages, you are governed by the minimum wages payable for the Engineering/Fabrication industry. The Engineering Industry is one category of industries under the Factories Act.

Thank you, Mr. Babu. Just to clarify, I would like to know if I fall under Residuary under Factory Act, 1948, or Engineering Industry. In the following link https://www.citehr.com/485436-differ...t-1948-a.html: it mentions that erection and assembling of equipment like automobiles, transformers using scientific technology fall under Engineering. Do press machine operations also qualify for the same?

Understanding Factory Classification in Engineering Industry

Right fabrication unit with press machines... undoubtedly, yours is a factory. The factory definition has widened—it now even covers a petrol bunk as a factory. So why not yours? The engineering industry encompasses all engineering works, which are surely done by machines. Every factory should have machines for producing new useful products. Your establishment is a factory producing metal sheets using pressing machines. Whether it involves repairs or vehicle washing units that have machines and some manual engineering works, all come under a factory. So, proceed with labor laws and other departmental laws of the factory. All the best... undoubtedly.

Small correction: The Maharashtra Factories (Amendments) Act 2015, also known as the Factory Act, is applicable in Maharashtra. If the manufacturing process is carried out with the help of 20 or more workmen with the aid of power or 40 workmen without the aid of power, respectively.

Thank you.

Every state has some minor amendments, but the concept behind the Factories Act is applicable to all such factories. All scientific process industries, including bio-products and Ayurvedic health-producing units, natural face cream manufacturing units, and pickles manufacturing units, also come under the Factories Act definition either with a number of workers or with M1, M2 types of categories of using the quantity of electrical energy. (Please search in Google for more information on the Factories Act).

Thank you for your inputs, and I apologize for persisting with the topic.

So for the MMW act, do I need to register under the Factory Act or Engineering Industry?