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 XXI. - Wages on planatations

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HEALTH AND WELFARE IN PLANTATIONS, 491 of close on 4 lakhs of rupees at the credit of the Assam Labour Board, whose abolition we have recommended. If our recommendations: are accepted, we consider that the residue, after meeting all proper expenses volved in winding up the affairs of the Board, could equitably be trans- ferred to the Boards of Health and Welfare in Assam. The money :n question has been collected by statute from the industry and it would thus go to diminish charges which the industry would be called upon bo meet under another statute. We recommend the examination of this possibility by Government in consultation with the industry, © Staff and Procedure. The chief executive officer of the Board should be a whole-time experienced medical officer with public health qualifications. He would have under his direct control the necessary staff of sanitary inspectors, vaccinators, etc., and would be generally responsible to the Board for the smooth running of all its activities. In addition he would be res- ponsible for the administration of any central hospitals maintained by the Board. The question of malaria control is so closely connected with health on the plantations that we consider each Board should alse amploy at least ome malariologist who would work under the chief medical officer’s supervision. The Boards should meet at regular intervals and, in some cases, it might be advantageous for these meetings to take place at different places chosen to enable the members to see what is being done in various plantations and to judge of the progress of their own schemes. The Board should receive full accounts of the work done since its last meeting and consider proposals for future werk. On these it would give decisions and sanction expenditure. It would consider sases of default against its rules and orders and sanction proseentions where necessary. Administration of Maternity Benefit Schemes. In respect of maternity benefit legislation, each Board should be the administrative authority for the.area under its control. - It should also be given power to approve existing schemes which, while not in strict conformity with the law in respect of cash benefits, nevertheless in both cash and kind gave benefits on a scale on the average not less advantage- ous to the women concerned. The Board could also prescribe the number of trained midwives required in proportion to the numbers of women smploved and assist with the training of dais and midwives. : Government Control over Regulations. We now come to the relations of the Boards with Government and the control which the latter should exercise over them. It will be recognised that the prescription by the State of a minimum rate of cess and the presence of officers responsible to the Minister of Health on the Boards provide in themselves a measure of security against any failure on the part of the Boards to fulfil their duties. But we propose further safeguards. The Act constituting the Boards and prescrib- ing their procedure should detail. as far as possible. their duties and

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