Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. - Railways

Collection:: Economics Books

RAILWAYS, 18% more than Rs. 10 lakhs. Olags I systems have a total route mileage of 37,000, and the others of 3,000 and 1,000 miles respectively. In accordance with our terms of reference, our enquiries have been limited to the lines running through British India only, thereby excluding from our survey two Class I railways with a route mileage of 2,000 miles and employing about 23,000 workers. Of the remaining twelve Class I railways, five are state-owned and state-managed, five are state-owned and company-managed, and two are both owned and managed by companies. We have received written evidence from each and in addition have had the advantage of hearing evidence given on be- half of nine of the administrations and of workers’ organisations connect- ed with eight of them. Our arrangements did not permit of oral evidence being taken in connection with the two company-owned railways or the smallest state-owned company-managed line, employing between the three about 50,000 workers and covering a route mileage of less than 4,000 miles. There was also submitted to us written and oral evidence from the members of the Railway Board, and we desire to express our appreciation of the assistance rendered us by them and by railwaymen generally, while making detailed enquiries info the working conditions on the different railways. Railway Administration. Before proceeding to state the result of these enquiries, it is necessary to refer to the position occupied by the Railway Board in the administration of Indian railways. Control over the operations of the railway companies was at first secured through the appointment by the Government of India of consulting engineers and later through adminis- trative and secretariat appointments in the Public Works Department of the Government of India. A Railway Board was constituted in 1905 and reorganised in 1922 when g Chief Commissioner was appointed to act as President without being liable to be over-ruled by his colleagues on the Board. In 1924 a Financial Commissioner was added and. from that date until the spring of 1929 the Railway Board consisted of four members, one of whom dealt with general administration, personnel and traffic subjects. The transfer of more railways from company to State management and the increasing complexity of the labour prob- lems necessitated the addition to the Board of a special member to deal with questions concerning staff in general and labour in particular, This member has the assistance of a Director and Deputy Director of Establishment and since 1999 the problems of railway labonr have heen receiving special attention. The Railway Board is directly responsible to the Government of India for the administration of state-owned railways managed by the State and have complete administrative authority over the general managers or agents of thege railways, to whom considerable powers have been delegated. Within the grants at their disposal, the agents are competent to create most of the higher subordinate and all the lower posts and to grant additional pay to individuals: they also have full

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