In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a)“the Board” means the Board constituted under 1[section 10];
(b)“chairman” means the chairman of the Commission;
(c)“Commission” means the Khadi and Village Industries Commission established under section 4;
2[(cc) “fixed capital investment” includes investment in plant and machinery and land and building of an industry;]
(d)“khadi” means any cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, silk or woolen yarn handspun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns;
(e)“member” means a member of the Commission 3[and includes the chairman 4***];
(f)“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
5[(ff) “rural area” means the area comprised in any village, and includes the area comprised in any town, the population of which does not exceed 6[twenty thousand] or such other figure as the Central Government may specify from time to time;]
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9[(h) “village industry” means,—
(i)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 10[one lakh 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 and located in an area other than a rural area and recognised as a village industry at any time before the commencement of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (Amendment) Act, 1987 (12 of 1987), shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this sub-clause, continue to be a village industry under this Act:
1[Provided further that in the case of any industry located in a hilly area, the provisions of this sub-clause shall have effect as if for the words “one lakh rupees”, the words “one lakh and fifty thousand rupees” steal.]
(ii) any other non-manufacturing unit established for the sole purpose of promoting, maintaining, assisting, servicing (including mother units) or managing any village industry;]