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289. The Central Government should determine finally the character
of the control necessary in any area .
200. Officials as well as planters should take steps to acquaint the
workers with the change in the law in regard to penal contracts “5
291. Steps should be taken to secure public contact with workers’
dwellings on all plantations .e . .
292. (az) The tea industry should give publicity to the advantages
which the plantations have to offer tothe inhabitants of other provinces
(6) The emigrant should be encouraged to maintain touch with
his own people by means of correspondence -
293. Repatriation :

(a) Every future assisted emigrant to an Assam tea garden, whe-
ther from an area of free or controlled recruiting should
have the right after the first three years to be repatriated
at his employer’s expense ~~ ..

() The Protector of Immigrants and the planters in consultation
should consider the machinery necessary to make the right
of repatriation effective . os

{¢) In the case of the worker who transfers his services to another
garden before the three years have expired, the cost of re-
patriation should fall on the employer by whom he was
last engaged. A worker transferring his services to an em-
ployer outside the tea industry should thereby be consider-
ed to have surrendered the right to repatriation .

(d) The Protector should be empowered to repatriate a garden
worker, at the expense of his employer, 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, un-
just treatment by the employer or for other sufficient reason,
and at any time before the expiry of three years if he is
satisfied that the immigrant is unable with due diligence
Lo secure a normal wage and desires to be repatriated ie

(e) A worker dismissed before the expiry of the three years should
be entitled to repatriation at the expense of the employer
ismissing him, unless it is established that the dismissal
was due to wilful misconduct -

{f) In case of physical assault by an employer or his agent, in
addition to any other penalty which may be provided by
law, the magistrate should be empowered to order the re-
vatriation of the worker at the expense of the emplover ..
CHAPTER XXI,—WAGES ON PLANTATIONS.
204, Wage-fixing machinery in the Assam plantations—

(a) The establishment of statutory wage-fixing machinery in the
Assam plantations, if practicable, is desirable, and there are
reasons for believing that, if proper methods are adopted,
a practicable scheme can be devised .. -

(b) Before legislation is undertaken, an enquiry should be instituted
as to the most suitable form of machinery, the actual rates
paid and the variations in these rates between district and
district and between garden and garden. The tea industry
should he invited to co-operate in this enquiry . . x

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