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 VIII. - Mines

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MINES. 113 outlying fields being of much less importance. The Ranigan], Jharia wad Bokaro fields, which together produce nearly 90%, of the present total coa output, lie in a narrow strip running roughly from Raniganj in Bengal (about 160 miles north-west of Calcutta) westwards for about a hundred miles. Adjoining them still further to the west is the less important but expanding Karanpura field, while about 50 miles to the north of the Jharia field is the Giridih field. The greater part of the Ranigan] field lies in Bengal ; the remainder of it and all the other fields mentioned are in the Chota Nagpur division of Bihar and Orissa. The figures of output, in tons, for these fields and for the remainder of British India in 1929 are given below :—— Jharia 10,786,000 Giridih 771,000 Raniganj 6,828,000 Karanpura 467,000 Bokaro 2,119,000 Rest of India 1,337,000 The last item includes 680,000 tons from the Pench Valley field in the Central Provinces. The industry meets the present internal demands of India, and both the export and import of coal are on a small scale at the present time. The efforts which have been made in recent years to recover the export trade have been materially assisted by the co-operation of Government with the industry in the work of the Coal Grading Committee. Production in Recent Years. The figures of coal production, of the number of mines and of miners employed in British India are given by the Mines Depart- ment as follows ~— Years. ¥1896-1900 (Annual Average) 1901-1905 Annual Average 1906-1910 Annual Average; 1911-1915 Annual Average) 1916-1920 ‘Annual Average! 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 [928 1 09G . . - Produc- tion (tons). 3,975,475 7,037,312 10,894,019 4,731,904 8,486,988 8,358,034 8,168,988 8,763,967 20,256,034 19,969,041 20,093,024 21,108,976 21,515,796 99. 308.174 Number of Mines. 191 297 437 554 700 R84 953 242 346 810 722 844 556 34R Average daily number smploved. 61,367 83,186 105,506 128.884 167,881 190,647 184,356 182,601 187,088 173,140 170,628 165,213 164,139 165.658 Average for 4 years, figures for 1898 not being available. The industry is largely the creation of a single generation. Although organised coal mining began in the Raniganj field arly in the nineteenth century, in no year prior to 1895 did production reach three million tons, whereas since 1906 it has

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