India - Annual Survey of Industries: 2007-08

WORKERS are defined to include all persons employed directly or through any agency whether for wages or not and engaged in any manufacturing process or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises used for manufacturing process or in any other kind of work incidental to or connected with the manufacturing process or the subject of the manufacturing process. Labour engaged in the repair and maintenance or production of fixed assets for factory's own use or labour employed for generating electricity or producing coal, gas etc. are included.
EMPLOYEES include all workers defined above and persons receiving wages and holding supervisory or managerial positions engaged in administrative office, store keeping section and welfare section, sales department as also those engaged in purchase of raw materials etc. or purchase of fixed assets for the factory and watch and ward staff.
TOTAL PERSONS ENGAGED include the employees as defined above and all working proprietors and their family members who are actively engaged in the work of the factory even without any pay and the unpaid members of the co-operative societies who worked in or for the factory in any direct and productive capacity.
The number of workers or employees is an average number obtained by dividing mandays worked by the number of days the factory had worked during the reference year.
MANDAYS represent the total number of days worked and the number of days paid for during the accounting year .It is obtained by summing-up the number of persons of specified categories attending in each shift over all the shifts worked on all days.