The Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act,1983
Preamble
[25th December,1983]
An Act to provide for the taking over in the public interest of the management of the textile undertakings of the companies specified in the First Schedule pending nationalisation of such undertakings and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
WHEREAS by reason of mismanagement of the affairs of the textile undertakings specified in the First Schedule, their financial condition became wholly unsatisfactory even before the commencement in January 1982 of the textile strike in Bombay and their financial condition has thereafter further deteriorated;
AND WHEREAS certain public financial institutions have advanced large sums of money to the companies owning the said undertakings with a view to making the said undertakings viable;
AND WHEREAS further investment of very large sums of money is necessary for reorganising and rehabilitating the said undertakings and thereby to protect the interests of the workmen employed therein and to augment the production and distribution at fair prices of different varieties of cloth and yarn so as to subserve the interests of the general public;
AND WHEREAS acquisition by the Central Government of the said undertakings is necessary to enable it to invest such large sums of money;
AND WHEREAS, pending the acquisition of the said undertakings, it is expedient in the public interest to take over the management of the said undertakings;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
The Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act,1983