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Indian labour law protects women workers by requiring an employer to provide certain welfare facilities once the female workforce at a workplace crosses a fixed statutory headcount — one such facility is an on-site creche for the children of these workers.

Section 48 of the Factories Act, 1948, fixes that headcount at more than 30 women workers ordinarily employed in a factory: once a factory crosses this number, it must provide a creche facility for children below six years of age. This CTET item (July 2024, Paper 2) reproduces this exact provision as covered in the NCERT Class 7 ‘Social and Political Life’ textbook, so the number the question is asking for is 30.

Cross-check against a related but distinct provision, to avoid confusing the two:

• The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 (Section 11A) fixes a different headcount — more than 50 employees of any gender — for the same creche obligation at an establishment; that number is not offered among this item's options, so it cannot be mistaken for the answer here.

• None of the smaller counts offered corresponds to any statutory headcount fixed by either law for the mandatory creche-facility requirement.

So the number of women employees the law (and this question) requires is more than 30.