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 IX. - Railways

Collection:: Economics Books

RAILWAYS, 141 will take time, but the railway administrations can materially assist by making known to all employees and applicants for employment that under no circumstances should bribes be offered. All new entrants should be handed a printed statement of their duties and rights in the service, which should also contain a warning to the effect that evidence of the giving or receiving of bribes will result in the services of those concerned being summarily terminated. The general adoption of regular serutinies of registers of lower grades of labour and the appointment and promo- tion of as many grades as possible with the aid of labour bureaux and selection boards should greatly assist in removing causes for complaint. Medical Examination. Candidates for employment, are required to undergo a medical examination by railway medical officers who decide whether or not applicants reach the prescribed standard of vision and general physical health. Further examinations take place as and when considered neces- sary by the administration and its medical advisers, If a worker, after being confirmed in the service, is required to undergo a further medical examination, it seems fair that, in the event of an adverse medical report being received, the worker should be afforded, if he so desires, the right to be examined by an independent specialist. We suggest that the selec- bion of these specialists should be made by the head of the Medical De- partment in each province. The report of such specialist should be for- warded to the appropriate administrative officer of the railway concerned. To prevent unnecessary appeals, a reasonable deposit should accompany the appeal against the certificate of the railway medical officer and be liable to forfeiture at the instance of the specialist. Should a worker be considered medically unfit for the post held by him at the time of such examination, every effort should be made to find him other work of which he mav still be capable. Racial Discrimination. A substantial amount of evidence was put before us on the sub- ject of racial discrimination. So far as railways are concerned, the term is generally used to denote discrimination in respect of appointments, pay, promotion and other matters in favour of Europeans or Anglo- Indians; in the case of the latter, communa] discrimination would be a more accurate term. When the railways were being built up, the officers and responsible subordinate grades were filled almost ex- clusively from these classes, and in very early days educated Indiang did not seek employment of this character. Until recent years, prefer- ence was shown in respect of appointments and other matters to Europeans and An glo-Indians on a]] railways and particularly on company- managed railways. With the question of recruitment of officers we are not directly concerned, but jt may be remarked that the policy of Indjani- sation laid down by the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India in 1924 is now followed. The main field of controversy now ig

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