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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127 The Exclusion of Women. The second important change recently made in the law relating to mines is the introduction of the regulations for the prohibition of employment of women underground. Power to make such regulations was given in the Act of 1901 and renewed in 1923, but it was not exercised until 1929 when, after long discussion, the Governor General in Council made the present regulations. Their effect is to exclude women from underground workings forthwith, except in exempted mines, 7.e., except in coal mines m Bengal, Bihar and Orissa and the Central Provinces and salt mines in the Punjab. In these exempted mines the exclusion is to be gradual ; the employment of women underground after 1st J uly 1929 has been limited to a percentage of the total underground labour force, 29% in coal mines and 40%, in salt, to be reduced by 3%, and 4% respectively each year, so that after 1st July 1939 women will be entirely excluded from under- oround workings. Effects in Metalliferous Mines. The exempted mines included all but 3,000 women employed underground in 1928. Of these 3,000, nine-tenths worked in the mica mines. The owners informed us that they would find difficulty in re- placing the women workers, but the Chief Inspector’s report for 1929 seems to indicate that this difficulty is being surmounted. In the Punjab salt mines, where we found some difficulty in obtaining accurate figures of the numbers of women employed, we were told that the ques- tion of exclusion was not expected to arise for one or two years : mean- while fresh women workers were being emploved. We recommend that this practice be discontinued Effects in Collieries. In collieries, the immediate results of the regulation have exceeded expectations and the table below gives the relevant figures of average numbers employed. Women. Men. Category of workers. Underground Open workings Surface w 5 Total 1998. 28,408 2 019 a. = 19.572 1920 21,880 ° 7.945 - R52 te 1928 68,727 9.443 36,007 5. 14.287 1929. 75,022 10,793 37,366 423,181 —— The effects of this change must be increasingly felt as time goes on, but in some directions are not difficult to foresee. First and most —

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