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Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires --- (a) “Appointing authority” in relation to a service or post in an establishment, means the authority empowered to make appointment to such service or post ; [(b) Community certificate means a certificate issued by the competent authority indicating therein the Caste or Tribe, as the case may be, to which a person belongs; (c) Competent Authority means an officer or authority empowered by this Act or the rules made there-under or by the Government by notification to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Act or the rules made there-under; (d) Educational Institution means any School, College, Polytechnic Institute, Industrial Training Institute, Institute for Nursing or Midwifery or any other institute for imparting education or training under the control of any Board or University established by an Act of the Parliament or State Legislature and is owned or aided by the State Government;] 2 (e) 3 “Establishment” means [any office under the State] 4, a local or statutory authority constituted under the constitution of India or any other law for the time being in force or a Corporation in which not less than fifty one percent of the paid- up share capital is held by the State Government and includes Universities and Colleges affiliated to the Universities, Primary and Secondary Schools and also other educational institutions which are owned or aided by the State Government and also includes an establishment in Public Sector ;