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 XX. - Recruitment for Assam

Collection:: Economics Books

380 CHAPTER XX. o we consider that it would be advisable for the planter, so far as the right of repatriation is concerned, to treat a worker who has come up on his OWN account in the same way as one who has been assisted to do so. We contemplate that, when an emigrant has served for three years, he should, unless. he desires to stay, be sent back by the employer, receiving his fare and the means of subsistence on the journey. It will be necessary to devise some machinery for ensuring that the right of repatriation is everywhere effective, and this should be considered by the planters and the Protector in consultation, as soon as the latter is appointed. Among the matters which would require consideration are the number of days within which a worker who has completed his three years in Assam must be repatriated by his employer and the measures necessary to ensure that a worker surrendering his right of repatriation does so of his own free will. We anticipate that, under a repatriation scheme, some workers will desire to go and others will not : but we hope that a large number will be sent by their employers not with the single fare, which is obligatory under our scheme, but with the promise of a return fare also, 1.e., that they will go on short leave and will not abandon Assam. Transferred Workers. Provision will have to be made for the labourer who transfers his services to another garden before the three years have expired. In this case we recommend that the cost of repatriation should fall on the employer by whom he was last engaged before the three years expire. This will minimise the danger of employers securing labour without sharing in the costs of recruitment. It will probably be necessary to provide labourers with a certificate showing the date of their recruitment and the garden by which they were recruited. Such certificates can be given at a convenient depét during transit and can be inspected by employers before engaging labour in Assam. A worker transferring his services to an employer outside the tea industry will surrender the right to repatriation. Earlier Repatriation. In addition, it should be possible, where adequate cause is shown, to secure the repatriation of a labourer before the three years have expired. Under the present Act, the District Magistrate can repatriate at the employer's expense any persons who have been wrongfully recruited or who are physically incapacitated from earning a livelihood. We would transfer this power to the Protector of Immi- grants. At the same time we would enlarge somewhat the grounds om which repatriation can be ordered on the lines of the general conditions governing repatriation in Ceylon and Malaya. Thus the Protector should be able to order repatriation of any worker within one year of his arrival in Assam, if this is necessary on the ground of health, the unsuitability of the work to his capacity, unjust treatment by the em- ployer, or for other sufficient reason. The, employer should, of course, have an opportunity of presenting his case before an order is passed. This type of repatriation would be the exception and is designed partly to

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