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

142 * CHAPTER IX, that of appointment to the better-paid subordinate grades. The pre- sent position is illustrated in the following table relating to twelve Class I railwavs :— Class of employees, Gazetted officers .. ve Subordinates drawing Rs. 260 per month and over Y. Subordinates drawing less than Ra. 250 per month .. Europeans. 1.394 2.045 1.397 1 R36 Anglo- Indians. Hindus, Muslims and other Indians. 60 519 9 may 2.035 10.064 736.465 ] 14.001 | 739.919 Total staff. 2,078 8,757 747.926 758.756 It has been stated to us that particular grades of railway service are reserved, in practice if not by rule, for Anglo-Indians and that other Indians seeking employment of that type have to enter on lower pay. Partly in consequence of this, the former class receives advantages in respect of promotion and other matters which are not open to all. On behalf of the Anglo-Indians it has been urged that they have a higher stan- dard of living than other Indians. and that they cannot, enter at the lower levels. The Government of India have declared their policy to be the elimination of racial discrimination, and we have been supplied by the Railway Board with a memorandum detailing the steps which have been taken and will be taken to give effect to this policy. So far as those in the service are concerned, the memorandum observes that it is not practicable to withdraw concessions from those who enjoyed them before the policy of the elimination of racial diseri- mination began to be actively pursued, and this position is not seri- ously disputed. The question of future recruitment stands in a differ- ent category. Here the ordinary principle of recruitment solely on the basis of merit without regard to race or community, is modified in two directions. In the first place, the Government of India, in order to secure adequate representation of minority communities, have adopted the policy of reserving one-third of the vacancies in any competitive examina- tion for the redress of marked communal inequalities. In effect this policy means that if the minority communities (z.e., Musalmans, Sikhs and others, including Anglo-Indians) do not obtain a third of the vacan- cies by simple competition, candidates belonging to these communities who are qualified may be preferred to better qualified candidates of the majority community. In the second place, the Government of India

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