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

152 CHAPTER IX. March 1930, 465,000 or 56%, in connection with state-managed railways and 354,000 on other lines. The following statement gives figures of those in receipt (1) of less than Rs. 20 per month and (2) of Rs. 20 or more and also shows the numbers of subscribers to the State Railway Provident Fund and other Railway Provident Funds on 3lst March 1930) + Railwavs. State .. Others ae Totals .. 12 ClassI .. | Rest e All-India Railway employees. Provident Fund subscribers, .n receipt of less than Rs. 20 | p. Mm. In receipt of Rs. 20 p.m. Or more. Total. {n receipt of less than Rs. 20 D. ML. In receipt of Rs. 20 p.m. . or more. Total. 240,011 207.054 225,445 146.548 465,456 353 602 2,109 9.308 138,593 105,197 140,702 114.505 47.065 271.993 R19.058 11.417 243.790 955 907 108,113 a8 052 350,796 21.19% 158,909 | 10,797 | 230,149 60.149 620 | 13.641 240,946 14.961 This analysis shows that only 319, of railway employees actually sub- scribe to provident funds and that, while 65%, of employees in re- ceipt of Rs. 20 per month or more are subscribers, not 3%, of those drawing less than Rs. 20 monthly are members. No provision is made for workers drawing less than Rs. 15 monthiy to join any of the provi- dent funds. Under the State Railway Provident Fund Rules, workshop and shed employees are eligible for membership only if they are entitled to a month’s notice of termination of service and have completed three years” continuous service. All other permanent non-pension- able employees, excluding menials, are eligible to subscribe to the Fund, provided their pay amounts to Rs. 15 per month. No menial servant is allowed to subscribe to the State Railway Provident Fund on any terms. Different interpretations of the term menial are found on different railways. Generally it is applied to the lower paid employees, who are more favourably treated as regards provident fund facilities on company-managed lines. On the latter lines all members of the staff, except daily-rated employees, are treated very much alike, and are usually eligible for membership if they receive not less than Rs. 15 monthly. We recognise the difficulties in the way of low paid employees subscribing to a provident fund, but we feel existing conditions no longer warrant the distinctions drawn against menials and daily-rated workers. We therefore recommend that, on completion of one year’s continuous service, all employees should be eligible to join a provident fund, member- ship being ovtional for those whose emoluments are less than. Rs. 20

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