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 VI. - Seasonal factories

Collection:: Economics Books

SEASONAL FACTORIES. 89 of the grade of deputy collector or sub-divisional magistrate be given a short intensive training and then employed in districts where factories of the type we have mentioned are to be found. Here they would form part of the magisterial and revenue staff and would be required to devote only part of their time during the appropriate season to factory inspection. Officers below these grades, such as Industrial Surveyors who are employed as Factory Inspectors in the Punjab and Delhi, should not be used for this work as they frequently lack the necessary authority and status to give them standing in the eyes of the employer. Moreover, the performance of their other duties may be made difficult where punitive action has been taken as a result of contraventions of the Factories Act. We suggest the omission of the tea factories of Assam and Bengal from this system as we have made special recommend- ation for the former elsewhere and the latter are best dealt with, as at present, by a full-time officer in the season. Control of Inspection. A necessary corollary to the efficient working of this system is the laying down of definite standards of inspection, both as regards the number of visits to be paid during the season and the type of report to be submitted to the factory inspection department. For the latter purpose regular forms should be carefully prepared by that department for issue to all ex-officio inspectors and a copy of the report of each inspection made by such officers should be submitted to the Chief Inspector of Factories. We see no objection to the District Magistrates retaining powers as Inspectors of Factories, but ordinarily they cannot and need not be re- quired to act in that capacity if the recommendations made above are carried out. A certain degree of supervision of the part-time inspectors would be a useful service on their part.

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