#THE PROVIDENT FUNDS ACT, 1925 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1. Short title, extent and commencement. 
2. Definitions. 
3. Protection of compulsory deposits. 
4. Provisions regarding re-payments. 
5. Rights of nominees. 
6. Power to make deductions. 
6A. Withholding  or  recovery  of  Government  contributions  in  case  of  Central  Government 
  officers taking up, without prior permission, commercial employment within two years of 
  their retirement. 
7. Protection for acts done in good faith. 
8. Power to apply the Act to other Provident Funds. 
9. Savings as to estates of soldiers. 
10. [Repealed.]. 
THE SCHEDULE. 



#THE PROVIDENT FUNDS ACT, 1925 

##ACT NO. 19 OF 1925

[27th August, 1925.] 

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to Government and other Provident Funds. 

  WHEARES  it  is  expedient  to  amend  and  consolidate  the  law  relating  to  Government  and  other 
Provident Funds; 

  It is hereby enacted as follows:— 

1. **Short title, extent and commencement.**—(1) This Act may be called the Provident Funds 
Act, 1925. 

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir[^1]. 

(3) It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date4 as  the  Central  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the 
Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. **Definitions.**—In  this  Act,  unless  there  is  anything  repugnant  in  the  subject  or 
context,— 

  (a) “compulsory deposit” means a subscription to, or deposit in, a Provident Fund which, 
under  the  rules  of  the  Fund,  is  not,  until  the  happening  of  some  specified  contingency, 
repayable on demand otherwise than for the purpose of the payment of, premia in respect of a 
policy  of  life  insurance, or  the  payment  of  subscriptions  or  premia  in  respect  of  a  family 
pension  fund, and  includes  any  contribution and  any  interest  or  increment  which  has 
accrued  under  the  rules  of  the  fund  on  any  such  subscription,  deposit  or  contribution,  and 
also any such subscription, deposit, contribution, interest or increment remaining to the credit 
of the subscriber or depositor after the happening of any such contingency; 

  (b) “contribution” means any amount credited in a Provident Fund, by any authority 
administering the Fund, by way of addition to, a subscription to, or deposit or balance 
at  the  credit  of  an  individual  account  in, the  Fund;  an d  “contributory  Provident  Fund” 
means a Provident Fund the rules of which provide for the crediting of contributions; 

  (c) “dependant” means any of the following relatives of  -a deceased subscriber to, or a 
depositor  in,  a  Provident  Fund,  namely,  a  wife,  husband,  parent,  child,  minor  brother, 
unmarried  sister  and  a  deceased  son's  widow  and  child,  and,  where  no  parent  of  the 
subscriber or depositor is alive, a paternal grand -parent; 

(d) “Gover n ment   Pr ovi dent   Fund ”  means   a  Pr ovi dent   Fund,  ot her   t han  a 
Rai l wa y  Provident  Fund,  constituted  by  the  authority  of the Secretary of State, the 
Central Government, the Crown Representative or any State Government for any class or 

[^1]. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu 
and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh. 



classes of persons in the service of the Government or of persons  employed  in 
educational  institutions  or  employed  by  bodies  existing  solely  for  educational  purposes, 
and references in this Act to the Government shall be construed accordingly; 

  (e) “Provident  Fund”  means  a  fund  in  which  subscriptions  or  deposits  of  any  class  or 
classes  of  employees  are  received  and  held  on  their  individual  accounts,  and  includes  any 
contributions and any interest or increment accruing on such subscriptions, deposits or 
contributions under the rules of the Fund; 

  (f) “Railway administration” means— 

     (i) any company administering a railway or tramway in any part of India either 
under a special Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or an Indian law, or under 
under contract with the Government, or 

     (ii) the manager of any railway or tramway administered by the Central Government or by a 
State Government, 

and  includes,  in  any  case  referred  to  in  sub-clause  (ii)  the Central Government or the.  State 
Government, as the case may be;

  (g) “Railway  Provident  Fund”  means  a  Provident  Fund  constituted  by  the  authority  of  a  rail 
Way administration for any class or classes of its employees. 

3. **Protection of compulsory deposits.**—(1)  A  compulsory  deposit  in  any  Government  or 
Railway Provident Fund shall not in any way be capable of being assigned or charged and shall 
not be liable to attachment under any decree or order of any Civil, Revenue or Criminal Court in 
respect  of  any  debt  or  liability  incurred  by  the  subscriber  or  depositor,  and  neither  the  Official 
Assignee  nor  any  receiver  appointed  under  the  Provincial  Insolvency  Act,  1920  (5  of  1920), 
shall be entitled to, or have any claim on, any such compulsory deposit. 

(2) Any sum standing to the credit of any subscriber to, or depositor in, any su ch Fund at 
the  time  of  his  decease  and  payable  under  the  rules  of  the  Fund  to  any  dependant  of  the 
subscriber or depositor, or to such person as may be authorised by law to receive payment on 
his  behalf,  shall,  subject  to  any  deduction  authorised  by  this  A ct  and,  save  where  the 
dependant is the widow or child of the subscriber or depositor, subject also to the rights of an 
assignee  under  an  assignment  made  before  the  commencement  of  this  Act,  vest  in  the 
dependant, and shall, subject as aforesaid, be free f rom any debt or other liability incurred by 
the deceased or incurred by the dependant before the death of the subscriber or depositor . 

4. **Provisions regarding re-payments.**—(1) When  under  the  rules  of  any  Government  or 
Railway  Provident  Fund  the  sum  standing  to  the  credit  of  any  subscriber  or  depositor,  or  the 
balance thereof after the making of any deduction authorised by this Act, has become payable, 
the  officer  whose  duty  is  to  make  the  payment  shall  pay  the  sum  or  balance,  as  th e  case  may 
be, to the subscriber or depositor, or, if he is dead, shall— 

  (a) if  the  sum  or  balance,  or,  any  part  thereof,  vests  in  a  dependant  under  the 
provisions  of  section  3,  pay  the  same  to  the  dependant  or  to  such  person  as  may  be 
authorised by law to receive payment on his behalf; or 

  (b) if  the  whole  sum  or  balance,  as  the  case  may  be,  does  not  exceed  five  thousand 
rupees, pay the same, or any part thereof, which is not payable under clause (a), to any person 
nominated to receive it under the rules of the Fund, or, if no  person is so  nominated, to any 
person appearing to him to be otherwise entitled to receive it; or 

  (c) in  the  case  of  any  sum  or  balance,  or  any  part  thereof,  which  is  not  payable  to  any  person 
under clause (a)or clause (b) pay the same,— 

    (i) to  any  person  nominated  to  receive  it  under  the  rules  of  the  Fund,  on  production 
by  such  person  of  probate  or  letters  of  administration  evidencing  the  grant  to  him  of 
administration to the estate of the deceased or  a certificate granted under the Succession 
Certificate  Act,  1889 [^1] (7  of  1889),  or  under  the  Bombay  Regulation  VIII  of  1827, 
entitling the holder thereof to receive payment of such sum, balance or part, or 

     (ii) where no person is so nominated, to any person who produces such probate, letters or 
certificate: 

  Provided  that,  where  the  whole  or  any  part  of  any  sum  standing  to  the  credit  of  the 
subscriber or depositor has been assigned to any other person before the commencement of this 
Act, and notice in writing of the assignment has been received by the officer from the assignee, 
the officer shall, after making any deduction authorised by this Act and  any payment due under 
clause (a) to or on behalf of the widow or children of the subscriber or depositor — 

     (i) if the subscriber or depositor or, if he is dead, the person to whom in the absence 
of any  valid  assignment  the  sum  or  balance  would  be  payable  under  this  sub -section 
gives his consent in writing, pay the sum or part or the balance thereof, as the case may 
be, to the assignee, or 

     (ii) if such consent is not forthcoming, withhold payment of the sum, part or balance, as the 
case may be, pending a decision of a competent Civil Court as to the person entitled to receive it. 

(2) The making of any payment authorised by sub-section (1) shall be a full discharge to the 
Government or the railway administration, as the case may be, from all liability in respect of so 
much  of  the  sum  standing  to  the  credit  of  the  subscriber  or  depositor  as  is  equivalent  to  the 
amount so paid. 

5. **Rights of nominees.**— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time 
being  in  force  or  in  any  disposition,  whether  testamentary  or  otherwise,   by  a  subscriber  to,  or 
depositor  in,  a  Government  or  Railway  Provident  Fund  of  the  sum  standing  to  his  credit  in  the 
Fund, or of any  part thereof, where any nomination, duly  made in accordance with the rules  of 
the Fund, purports to confer upon any person the right to receive the whole or any part of such 
sum on the death of the subscriber or depositor occurring before the sum has become payable or 
before  the  sum,  having  become  payable,  has  been  paid,  the  said  person  shall,  on  the  death  as 
aforesaid of the subscriber or depositor, become entitled, to the exclusion of all other persons, to 
receive such sum or part thereof, as the case may be, unless— 

  (a) such nomination is at any time varied by another nomination made in like manner or 
expressly  cancelled  by  notice  given  in  the  manner  and  to  the  authority  prescribed  by  those 
rules, or 

  (b) such  nomination  at  any  time  becomes  invalid  by  reason  of  the  happening  of  some 
contingency specified therein,— 

and if the said person predeceases the subscriber or deposito r, the nomination shall, so far as it 
relates to the right conferred upon the said person, become void and of no effect: 

  Provided  that  where  provision  has  been  duly  made  in  the  nomination  in  accordance  with 
the rules of the Fund, conferring upon some other  person such right in the stead of the person 

[^1]. See now the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925). 


 
deceased, such right shall, upon the decease as aforesaid of the said person, pass to such other 
person.

(2) Notwithstanding  anything  contained  in the  Indian  Succession  Act,  1925  (39  of  1925) 
or the Bombay  Regulation VIII  of  1827, any person,  who  becomes entitled as aforesaid,  may 
be granted a certificate-under that Act, or that Regulation, as the case may be, entitling him to 
receive payment of such sum or part, and such certificate shall not be deemed to  be invalidated 
or  superseded  by  any  grant  to  any  other  person  of  probate  or  letters  of  administration  to  the 
estate of the deceased. 

(3) The provisions of this section as amended by sub-section (1)of section 2 of the Provident Funds 
(Amendment) Act, 1946 (11 of 1946), shall apply also to all such nominations made before the date of 
the commencement of that Act: 

  Provided  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  as  so  amended  shall  not  operate  to  affect  any 
case, in which before the said date any sum has been paid, or has under the rules of the Fu nd 
become payable in pursuance of any nomination duly made in accordance with those rules. 

6. **Power to make deductions.**—When the sum standing to the credit of any subscriber or 
depositor in any Government or Railway Provident Fund which is a contributory  Provident 
Fund becomes payable, there may, if the authority specified in this behalf in. the rules of the 
fund so  directs,  be  deducted  therefrom  and  paid  to Government or the  Railway  admini-
station, as the case may bed,— 

  (a) any  amount  due  under  a  liability  incurred  by  the  subscriber  or  depositor  to 
Government or the Railway administration, but  not  exceeding  in  an y  case  the  total 
amount  of  any  contributions  credited  to  the  account  of  the  subscriber  or  depositor  and  of 
any interest or increment which has accrued on such contributions; or 

  (b) where  the  subscriber  or  depositor  has  been  dismissed  from shis employment 
for  any  reasons  specified  in  this  behalf  in  the  rules  of  the  Fund,  or  where  he  has 
resigned  such  employment  within  five  years  of  the  commencement  thereof,  the  whole 
or any part of the amount of any such contributions, interest and increment. 

[^7][6A. **Withholding  or  recovery  of  Government  contributions  in  case  of  Central 
Government  officers  taking  up,  without  prior  permission,  commercial  employment  within 
two years of their retirement.**—(1) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

  (a) “Central Government officer” means a subscriber to, or depositor in, a contributory 
provident  fund  constituted  by  the  Central  Government,  who,  immediately  before  his 
retirement,  is  a  member  of  a  Central  Service  Class  I,  but  does  not  include  an  officer 
appointed under a contract of service for a specified term; 

  (b) “commercial  employment”  means  employment  in  any  capacity  (including  that  of 
an  agent)  under  any  company,  co -operative  society,  firm  or  individual  engaged  in 
trading, commercial, industrial, financial or professional business  and includes also— 

     (i) a directorship of a company; 

     (ii) the  holding  of  any  office,  whether  elective  or  otherwise,  such  as  that  of 
president,  chairman,  manager,  secretary,  treasurer,  by  whatever  name  called  in  a  co -
operative society; and 

[^7]. Ins. by Act 46 of 1975, s. 2 (w.e.f. 7-2-1977). 



     (iii) the  setting  up  of  practice,  either  independently  or  as  partner  of  a  firm,  as 
adviser or consultant in matters in respect of which the Central Government officer, — 

       (A) has  no  professional  qualifications  and  the  matters  in  respect  of  which 
the  practice  is  to  be  set  up  or  is  carried  on  are  relatable  to  his  official  knowledge  or 
experience, or 

       (B) has professional qualification, but the matters in respect of which such practice is to 
be set up are such as are likely to give his clients an unfair advantage by reason of the posts 
held by him under the Central Government, or 

       (C) has  to  undertake  work  involving  liaison  or  contact  with  the  offices  or  officers  of 
Central Government, 

but  does  not  include  employment  in  or  under  a  corporation  or  company  wholly  or  substantially 
owned  or  controlled  by  Government  or  employment  in  or  under  a  body  controlled  or  financed 
wholly or substantially by Government; 

  (c) “Government  contributions”  means  contributions  made  after  the  commencement  of  the 
Provident  Funds  (Amendment)  Act,  1975  (46  of  1975),  in  respect  of  any  period  after  such 
commencement, by the Central Government or by a State Government or by a local authority within 
the meaning of the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 (9 of 1914); 

  (d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Central Government by notification in 
the Official Gazette. 

(2) No Central Government officer shall have any right to the Government contributions made to his 
credit  in  a  contributory  provident  fund  in  any  case  where  he  takes  up  commercial  employment  at  any 
time before the expiry of two years from the date of his retirement without the prior permission of the 
Central Government. 

*Explanation* 1.—For  the  purposes  of  this  sub-section  and  sub-section  (7),  “date  of  retirement”  in 
relation  to  a  Central  Government  officer  re-employed  after  retirement  without  any  break  either  in  the 
same or any other Class I post under the Central Government or any other equivalent post under a State 
Government,  shall  mean  the  date  on  which  such  Central  Government  officer  finally  ceases  to  be  re-
employed in Government service. 

*Explanation* 2.—A Central Government officer permitted by the Central Government to take up a 
particular  commercial  employment  during  his  leave  preparatory  to  retirement  shall  be  deemed,  for  the 
purposes  of  this  sub-section,  to  have  obtained  prior  permission  of  the  Central  Government  for  his 
continuance in such employment after retirement. 

(3) Subject  to  the  provisions  of  sub-section  (4),  the  Central  Government  may,  by  order  in 
writing,  on  an  application  made  in  the  prescribed  form  by  a  Central  Government  officer,  grant, 
subject to such conditions, if any, as it may deem necessary, permission, or refuse, for reasons to 
be  recorded  in  the  order,  permission,  to  such  officer  to  take  up  the  commercial  employment 
specified in the application. 

(4) In  granting  or  refusing  permission  under  this  section  to  a  Central  Government  officer  for 
taking up any commercial employment, the Central Government shall have regard to the following 
factors, namely:— 

  (a) the  nature  of  the  employment  proposed  to  be  taken  up  and  the  antecedents  of  the 
employer; 

  (b) whether his duties in the employment which he proposes to take up might be such as to bring 
him into conflict with Government; 

  (c) whether the officer while in service had any such dealing with the employer under whom lie 
proposes to seek employment as might afford a reasonable basis for the suspicion that such officer 
had shown favours to such employer; 

  (d) any other relevant factors which may be prescribed. 

(5) Where  within  a  period  of  sixty  days  of  the  date  of  receipt  of  an  application  under 
sub-section  (3),  the  Central  Government  does  not  refuse  to  grant  the  permission  applied  for 
or does not communicate the refusal to the applicant, the Central Government shall be deemed to have 
granted the permission applied for. 

(6) Where  the  Central  Government  grants  the  permission  applied  for  subject  to  any 
conditions  or  refuses  such  permission,  the  applicant  may,  within  thirty  days  of  the  receipt  of 
the  order  of  the  Central  Government  to  that  effect,  make  a  representation  against  any  such 
condition  or  refusal  and  the  Central  Government  may  make  such  orders  thereon  as  it  deems 
fit: 

  Provided  that  no  order  other  than  an  order  cancelling  such  condition  or  granting  such 
permission  without  any  conditions  shall  be  made  under  this  sub -section  without  giving  the 
person making the representation an opportunity to show cause against the order proposed to 
be made. 

(7) if  any  Central  Government  officer  takes  up  any  commercial  employment  at  any  time 
before  the  expiry  of  two  years  from  the  date  of  his  retirement  without  the  prior  permission  of 
the  Central  Government  or  commits  a  breach  of  any  condition  Subject  to  which  permission  to 
take  up  any  commercial  employment  has  been  granted  to  him  under  this  section,  it  shall  be 
competent  for  the  Central  Government  to  declare  by  order  in  writing  and  for  reasons  to  be 
recorded therein that he shall not be entitled to such part of the Government con tributions made 
in  relation  to  such  officer  as  may  be  specified  in  the  order  and  if  he  has  received  payment 
thereof, to direct that he  shall refund to the Central Government an amount equivalent to such 
part of the Government contributions: 

  Provided that no such order shall be made without giving the officer concerned an opportunity of 
showing cause against such declaration or direction: 

  Provided further that in making any order under this sub-section, the Central Government shall have 
regard to the following factors, namely:— 

     (i) the financial circumstances of the officer concerned; 

     (ii) the nature of, and the emoluments from, the commercial employment taken up by the 
officer concerned; 

     (iii) such other relevant factors as may be prescribed. 

(8) Any amount required to be refunded by an order under sub -section (7) may, if it is 
not refunded within the prescribed period, be recovered as  arrears of land revenue. 

(9) Every order passed by the Central Government under this section shall be communicated to the 
officer concerned. 

(10) The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  have  effect  notwithstanding  anything  to  the 
contrary contained in any other provision of this Act or the rules applicable to any contributory 
provident fund. 

(11) Every rule  made by  the Central Government under this section shall be laid, as soon as 
may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in sess ion, for a total period 
of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and 
if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions 
aforesaid,  both  Houses  agree  in  making  any  modification  in  the  rule  or  both  Houses  agree  that 
the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or 
be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall 
be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.] 

7. **Protection for acts done in good faith.**—No  suit  or  other  legal  proceeding  shall  lie 
against  any  person  in  respect  of  anything  which  is  in  good  faith  done  or  intended  to  be  done 
under this Act. 

8. **Power to apply the Act to other Provident Funds.**— (1) The appropriate Government may, 
by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the provisions of this Act [^3][(except section 6A)]shall 
apply  to  any  Provident  Fund  established  for  the  benefit  of  its  employees  by  any  local  authority 
within  the  meaning  of  the  Local  Authorities  Loans  Act,  1914  (9  of  1914),  and,  on  the  making  of 
such  declaration,  this  Act  shall  apply  accordingly,  as  if  such  Provident  Fund  were  a  Governme nt 
Provident Fund and such local authority were the Government. 

(2) The appropriate Government may,  by  notification  in  the  Official  Gazette,  direct  that 
the provisions of this Act [^6][(except section 6A)] shall apply to any Provident Fund established for 
the benefit of the employees of any of the institutions specified in the Schedule, or of any group of 
such  institutions,  and,  on  the  making  of  such  declaration,  this  Act  shall  apply  accordingly,  as  if 
such Provident Fund were a Government Provident Fund  and the authority having custody of the 
Fund were the Government: 

  Provided that section  6 shall  apply  as if  the  authority  making  the  contributions  referred  to  in  that 
section were the Government. 

(3) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, add to the Schedule 
the name of any public institution it may deem fit, and any such addition shall take effect as if it had 
been made by this Act.

(4) In this section “the appropriate Government” means— 

  (a)  in  relation  to  a  cantonment  authority,  a  port  authority  for  a  major  port,  and  any 
institution  which,  or  the  objects  of  which,  appear  to  the  Central  Government  to  fall  within 
List I in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, the Central Government; and 

  (b) in other cases, the State Government. 

*Explanation.*—“The  State  Government”  in  relation  to  an  institution  registered  under  the 
Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) means the State Government of the State in which the 
society is registered.

9. **Savings as to estates of soldiers.**—Nothing  in  section  4  or  section  5  shall  apply  to  money 
belonging to any estate for the purpose of the administration of which the Regimental Debts Act, 1893 
(56 & 57 Viet., c.5), applies. 

10. *[Repeals.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1927 (12 of 1927), s. 2 and Sch.*

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[^3]. Ins. by Act 46 of 1975, s. 3 (w.e.f. 7-2-1977). 
[^6]. Ins. by Act 46 of 1975, s. 3 (w.e.f. 7-2-1977). 


 
##THE SCHEDULE 

###LIST OF INSTITUTIONS 

[See sub-section (2) of section 8] 

1. The Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli. 
2. The Calcutta Improvement Tribunal. 
3. A Court of Wards. 
4. The Indian Central Cotton Committee. 
5. The Trustees for the European Hospital for mental diseases at Ranchi. 
6. The National Association for supplying female medical aid to the women of India. 
7. A College affiliated to a University established by Statute. 
8. The Indian Coal Grading Board. 
9. The Lady Minto’s Indian Nursing Association. 
10. The Indian Red Cross Society. 
11. The Indian Lac Cess Committee. 
12. The Madras State Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. 
13. The Imperial Bank of India. 
14. The Bihar and Orissa Medical Examination Board. 

16. The Institution created for the control of emigrant Labour under the Tea Districts Emigrant 
Labour Act, 1932. 
17. The Bombay Board of Film Censors. 
18. The Calcutta University. 
19. The Central Board of Irrigation. 
20. The Reserve Bank of India. 

22. The Banaras Hindu University. 
23. The Medical Council of India. 
24. The Indian Coffee Cess Committee. 
25. The Inter-State Board for Anglo-Indian and European Education. 
26. The Indian Research Fund Association. 
27. The Delhi Joint Water and Sewage Board. 
28. The Tuberculosis Association of India. 
29. The Coal Mines Stowing Board. 
30. A Group Committee of the Sleeper Pool of Indian Railways. 
31. The Indian Coffee Market Expansion Board. 
32. The Coal Mines Rescue Stations Committee. 
33. The Indian Coffee Board. 

35. The Indian Rubber Board. 
36. The Indian Central Sugarcane Committee. 
37. All-India Cattle Show Committee. 
38. The Coal Mines Labour Welfare Fund. 
39. The Indian Coconut Committee. 
40. The Indian Central Tobacco Committee. 
41. The Employees' State Insurance Corporation. 
42. The Indian Tea Licensing Committee. 
43. The Coal Board established under the Coal Mines (Conservation and Safety) Act, 1952. 
44. The Delhi Road Transport Authority, New Delhi. 
45. The Central Tea Board. 
46. The Indian Central Oilseeds Committee. 
47. The Central Institute of Research in Indigenous Systems of Medicine, Jamnagar. 
48. The Indian Standards Institution, Delhi. 
49. The Textiles Committee. 
50. The Deshbandhu College, Kalkaji. 
51. The Damodar Valley Corporation. 
52. The Central Silk Board. 
53. The University Grants Commission, New Delhi. 
54. The Khadi and Village Industries Commission. 
55. The Lawrence School (Sanawar) Society. 
56. The Kalavati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi. 
57. The Sri Guru TegBahadurKhalsa College, Delhi. 
58. The Tea Board. 
59. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. 
60. Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. 
61. The Central Board for Worker’s Education. 
62. The Oil and Natural Gas Commission. 
63. The School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. 
64. The Central Board of Trustees for the administration of the Provident Fund established under the 
  Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952. 
65. The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation. 
66. Uttar  Pradesh  Financial  Corporation  established  (incorporated)  under  the  State  Financial 
  Corporations Act, 1951 (63 of 1951). 
67. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 
68. The Indian Nursing Council. 
69. Gujarat  State  Financial  Corporation  established  (incorporated)  under  the  State  Financial 
  Corporations Act, 1951 (63 of 1951). 
70. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. 
71. Rajasthan  Financial  Corporation incorporated  under  the  State  Financial  Corporations  Act,  1951 
  (63 of 1951). 
72. Air India International Corporation. 
73. The Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. 
74. The Pannalal Girdharlal D.A.V. College, New Delhi. 
75. Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi. 
76. The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. 
77. The  Board  of Trustees for  the  administration  of  the Provident  Fund  established  under the  Coal 
  Mines Provident Fund Scheme, 1948. 
78. Janki Devi Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi. 
79. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi. 
80. National Productivity Council. 
81. The National Industrial Development Corporation Limited. 
82. The Post-Graduate Training Centre in Ayurveda, Jamnagar. 
83. The Indian Investment Centre, New Delhi. 
84. The Indian Airlines Corporation. 
85. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. 
86. The  Vizagapatam  Dock  Labour  Board  established  under  the  Dock  Workers  (Regulation  of 
  Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948). 
87. The Central Social Welfare Board. 
88. Orissa State Financial Corporation incorporated under the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 
  (63 of 1951). 
89. The Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi. 
90. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. 
91. The Delhi Wakf Board. 
92. Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi. 
93. The Indian Law Institute. 
94. The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 
95. Dyal Singh College, New Delhi. 
96. Pramila College, Delhi. 
97. Sanatan Dharma College, New Delhi. 
98. Pharmacy Council of India.
99. The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. 
100. The Sainik Schools Society. 
101. The Salar Jung Museum Board, Hyderabad. 
102. The Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 
103. Madhya Pradesh Financial Corporation incorporated under the State Financial 
  Corporations Act, 1951 (63 of 1951). 
104. The Central Council of Gosamvardhana. 
105. The State Bank of India constituted by the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (23 of 1955). 
106. All-India Institute of Mental Health, Bangalore. 
107. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. 
108. Delhi Library Board, Delhi. 
109. The National Institute of Health Administration and Education, New Delhi. 
110. The All-India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. 
111. The Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
112. Press Council of India. 
113. National Council of Education, Research and Training. 
114. Indian Institute of Mass Communication Society. 
115. The National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, Bombay. 
116. Cochin Port Trust. 
117. Visakhapatnam Port Trust. 
118. Kandla Port Trust. 
119. Mormugao Port Trust. 
120. Paradip Port Trust. 
121. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. 
122. National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. 
123. Export Inspection Council. 
124. Export Inspection Agency, Bombay. 
125. Export Inspection Agency, Delhi. 
126. Export Inspection Agency, Calcutta. 
127. Export Inspection Agency, Madras. 
128. Export Inspection Agency, Cochin. 
129. The National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi. 
130. The Unit Trust of India established under the Unit Trust of India Act, 1963 (52 of 1963). 
131. The Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. 
132. The National Institute of Bank Management, Bombay. 
133. The Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. 
134. The Cardamom Board established under the Cardamom Act, 1965 (42 of 1965).
135. Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta. 
136. Central Institute of Research and Training in Public Co -operation, New Delhi. 
137. The Mormugao Dock Labour Board established under the Dock Workers (Regulation of 
  Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948). 
138. The  Cochin  Dock  Labour  Board  established  under  the  Dock  Workers  (Regulation  of 
  Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948). 
139. The Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, New Delhi. 
140. The Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi. 
141. Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. 
142. Iron Ore Board. 
143. Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. 
144. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. 
145. Seamen's Provident Fund Organisation. 
146. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited. 
147. Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Bombay. 
148. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan. 
149. Bal Bhawan Society (India). 
150. Power Engineers Training Society. 
151. National Institute of Hydrology. 
152. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. 
153. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi. 
154. National Labour Institute. 
155. National Co-operative Development Corporation, New Delhi. 
156. The National Water Development Agency, New Delhi. 
157. [^1][The Delhi Development Authority.] 

[^1]. Ins. by Notification No. S.O. 01(E), dated 31st December, 2019. 