State Act
Section 2. Definitions.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (1) “appointed day” means the day appointed under sub-section (3) of section 3; (2) “college” means a college affiliated to a University; (3) “employee” means,— (a) in relation to a non-Government educational institution, any person employed by such institution on whole-time basis, and includes a teacher or a member of non-teaching staff, and (b) in relation to a local authority, any person employed by such local authority on whole-time basis; (4) “Librarian” means a Librarian, Deputy Librarian, Assistant Librarian or any other person discharging the functions of a Librarian on whole-time basis, by whatever name called, appointed by a non-Government educational institution; (5) “local authority” means a Municipal Corporation, Municipality, or Town Committee, but does not include a notified area authority or a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad; (6) “non-Government educational institution” means an educational institution not maintained or managed by the State Government, and includes— (i) a University, (ii) a non-Government college, Hogher Secondary School recognised as such under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education Act, 1975, secondary school recognised as such under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Act, 1963, primary school managed by a District School Board constituted, or recognised as a primary school, under the Bengal (Rural) Primary Education Act, 1930, or recognised or deemed to be recognised as a primary school under the West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973, or (iii) any other institution, by whatever name called, affiliated to a University or recognised under any enactment for the time being in force, in which instruction is provided for courses of study in Arts, Science, Commerce or Teachers’ Training or in which instruction is given in primary education as defined in clause (14) of section 2 of the Bengal (Rural) Primary Education Act, 1930 or clause (xvii) of section 2 of the West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973; (7) “non-teaching staff” means the non-teaching staff, not holding any teaching post, appointed by a non-Government educational institution on whole-time basis, and includes a Librarian; (8) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (9) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (10) “teacher” means a Professor, Reader, Principal, Lecturer, Demonstrator, Tutor or any other person holding a teaching post, by whatever name called, appointed by a non-Government educational institution on whole-time basis; (11) “Treasury” means a Treasury of the State Government, and includes a Sub-Treasury; (12) “University” means the University constituted under— (i) the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Act, 1974, or (ii) the Calcutta University Act, 1979, or (iii) the Vidyasagar University Act, 1981, or (iv) the Burdwan University Act, 1981, or (v) the Jadavpur University Act, 1981, or (vi) the North Bengal University Act, 1981, or (vii) the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981, or (viii) the Kalyani University Act, 1981.