the defence of India and civil defence, the efficient conduct of military operations, or the maintenance or increase of supplies and services essential to the life of the community, to be an establishment engaged in work of national importance and thereupon such establishment shall be a notified establishment and while making such declaration, the Central Government may require that establishment to make such provisions as may be specified in the notification in regard to the terms of service and conditions of work of its employees.
(2) Every notified establishment shall be eligible to apply to a National Service Tribunal or to the Central Government for technical personnel and having so applied, shall take into its employment such technical personnel within such period and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.
Employment of technical personnel in the national service. 23. (1) Subject to any rules made in this behalf under this Chapter, the Central Government may require a National Service Tribunal to report what technical personnel, whether employed in an establishment or not, is available within its jurisdiction for employment in the national service and may by order in writing,—
- (a) require the employer in any establishment by which such technical personnel is employed to release such personnel as may be specified in the order, for employment in the national service;
- (b) direct any technical personnel to undertake such employment in the national service as may be specified in the order;
- (c) direct that any technical personnel engaged in any establishment under conditions not amounting to employment in the national service shall, for the purposes of sub-section (S), be deemed to have been taken into employment in the national service; and
- (d) require any notified establishment, notwithstanding that it has not made any application under section 22, to take into its employment such technical personnel within such period as may be specified in the order.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), a National Service Tribunal may—
- (a) exercise the powers conferred on the Central Government by clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1);
- (b) require by order any employer to give training in his establishment to persons for qualifying them as technical personnel;
