Definitions

Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "Board" means the Arunachal Pradesh Khadi and Village Industries Board constituted under section 3;
2. (b) "Khadi" means any cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, silk or woollen yarn hand-spun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns;
3. (c) "member" means a member of the Board;
4. (d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
5. (e) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act;
6. (f) "village industry" means any industry located in a rural area which produces any goods or renders any service with or without the use of power and in which the fixed capital investment per head of an artisan or a worker does not exceed fifty thousand rupees or such other sum as may, by notification in the Official Gazette, be specified from time to time by the Central Government: Provided that any industry specified in the Schedule may also be notified as a village industry as if it were in a rural area and may also be so notified notwithstanding any change in the location of such industry provided it had been engaged in village industry at any time before such change.