The word 'premises' under section 2(m) of the Factories Act, 1948 is a generic term meaning open land or land with buildings or buildings alone. The legislature had no intention to discriminate between workers engaged in

The word 'premises' under section 2(m) of the Factories Act, 1948 is a generic term meaning open land or land with buildings or buildings alone. The legislature had no intention to discriminate between workers engaged in manufacturing process in a building and those engaged in such a process on an open land. Thus, the salt works, in which the work done is of conversion of sea water into crystals of salt, come within the meaning of the word 'premises'. It was observed by the Supreme Court of India in the case of—