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. 149 on all railways. We recognise the danger of making comparisons of this description, in view of the expansion that has taken place in railways since 1914, the increase in the volume of business handled and the conse- quential increase in staff and working costs. We have extracted from the annual reports of the Railway Board the following figures, showing the increases since 1914 in route mileage, in traffic expressed in terms of passenger and ton miles, in working expenses and in staff numbers and cost on the twelve Class I railwavs under examination. namely :— Route mileage . ve Passenger miles (in millions) . - Ton miles (in millions) .. va se Working gous (in lakhs) we Co Number of employees (excluding construc. tion and contractor labour) .. we Cost of above in lakhs "es Cost after allowing for increase of 269 in number of emplovees i. 1913-14. 30.533 15,707 15,213 Rs. 8.129 597,415 Rs. 1,362 Bs. 1.715 1028.20 34.689 20,705 21,209 6,961 751,808 3.798 3.726 Increase per cent over 1913-14. 14 32 39 122 26 . 173 117 These figures cover all staff, superior and subordinate, permanent and temporary, employed on open line, excluding construction staff and all contractors’ staff. The 1928-29 figures, however, include bonus contributions to the Provident Fund and gratuities not debited in 1913-14 and to that extent differ from the pre-war year’s figures. Neverthelesg the comparison bears out the Railway Board's estimate of the increase in labour costs and gives an indication of the increase In. earnings of railway workers since 1914. On the other hand, the index figures of the cost of living published in the Labour Gazette of the Government of Bombay indicate a fall in the percentage increase over J uly 1914 from the 1920 average of 909% to an average of 48%, for 1929 and to 229, at the end of 1930. Although the position of railway workers generally would appear to have mproved considerably in recent years, as regards both earning capacity and buying power, the Railway Board recognise that accepted standards are being raised, and what would have heen regarded as satisfactory even ten years ago is no longer sufficient. Early in 1929, therefore, they set on foot a systematic examination of the service conditions of lower paid employees, with the result that revised scales of pay for these employees have been sanctioned and put into effect on

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