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 XV. - Housing of the industrial worker

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HOUSING OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER. 281 that the immediate cancellation of some of these licences would compel the more backward ones to take early cognisance of the defective accom- modation provided for their employees. Giridih Area. In the Giridih mines area workers and staff are provided with rent-free accommodation. Formerly the workers built and repaired their own houses with materials supplied to them by the management. In 1921, however, this practice was discontinued and repairs to houses were done departmentally, as this was said to be more efficient and less wasteful of material. Arrangements were made to improve the housing accommodation in 1924-25, and so far over two lakhs of rupees have been spent in demolishing a large number of inferior houses and replac- ing them by new ones. The number of rooms allotted depends on the size of the family. Two types of houses have been constructed, one with a pucca concrete roof and the other with a tiled roof. The miners prefer houses of the latter type but, though they are cheaper to construct, the annual cost of repairing them is heavy. We discuss later the advan- tages of permitting employees to build their own houses, and, while we appreciate what has been done by the employers in this colliery area, we are not certain that the change of policy made in 1921 was a wise one, and we recommend that it be reconsidered. In this area, as in other mining areas, improvement schemes have been discontinued temporarily owing to financial stringency, and much remains to be done before a satisfactory standard of housing will exist over the whole field. Metalliferous Mining Areas. Some of the accommodation in a number of the metalliferous mining areas is stated by the Chief Inspector of Mines to be © deplorable . This is no doubt partly due to the temporary nature of the work and the migratory character of the labour. But these are inadequate reasons for leaving the workers wunhoused or for providing mere temporary shelters without any of the other amenities associated with decent accommodation. An important exception is to be found in Namtu Where the Burma Corporation has provided rent-free houses for all its employees. The house lines are built of mat and thatch and the rooms, 12" x 10" x 10’, accommodate four men each, whilst married couples are given special rooms. Adequate water supplies, drainage and sanitation are also provided by the Corporation. We recommend that other mine- Owners should build houses of a more suitable character and that tore attention be given to the provision of water. drainage and latrines. Yenangyaung. As an illustration of what might be possible in mining areas, We would refer to the accommodation provided for its employees by the Burma Oil Company at Yenangyaung., The Company has laid out a number of villages with wide roads and open spaces and with a garden attached to each house, and the likes and dislikes of the different faces and classes of worker have been taken into account in preparing

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