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 XVI. - Workmen's compensation

Collection:: Economics Books

310 CHAPTER XVI. number of claims returned as paid by employers. The latter figures represent only the principal branches of industry affected by the Act and they are probably incomplete in other minor respects ; but they afford a sufficiently accurate indication of the rate at which claims have increas- ed. The recommendations we have made will tend further to increase these claims. Voar 1924 6 months). 1995 | 19926 1097. Proceedings. 108 629 874 1.9230 Applications for! Registration. 4R 497 6810 711 Total ve 154 | O56 1 4AR4 1.950 > fl 14.096 * 15.216 T L £5 ‘No. of claims .. Rupees .. 11,50,224 16,44,120 18.21,476 11.11.254 1098. | 1929. 1.9060 1.418 9048 1.087 2.9205 2 485 14.827 ' 18.865 10.95.7330 12.60.164 Knowledge of the Law. It is evident from these figures that Indian workmen and their dependants are only gradually coming to a realisation of their rights under the Act, and this process is still far from complete. That there are large numbers of workmen who do not receive compensation when it is due to them would be clear, even if other evidence were not available, from the low proportion of claims made on account of disablement. The ratio of plaims paid for permanent and temporary disablement to claims on account of death is much smaller than the ratio of non-fatal to fatal accidents even when due allowance is made for the effect of the waiting period in ex- cluding claims. It is possible that a number of claims are not pressed because the amounts are trifling, or because the workman has received other benefits, such as hospital care or medical treatment, or because of the difficulties in the way of securing payment ; but there must be a con- siderable number of possible claims which are not put forward because of ignorance of the law. We have given some consideration to possible re- medies for this state of affairs. We have commented elsewhere on the fact that in most cases little is done to acquaint workmen with changes in the law made by the legislature for their express protection or benefit. When measures of any importance are passed, steps to this end should be taken by local Governments, by the distribution of translations, or pre ferably summaries in the vernacular, of the new provisions of the law. Although a knowledge of the Workmen's Compensation Act is spreading steadily in industrial areas, it would still be of service if pamphlets summarising its provisions were made readily available to workmen ; and if, as we hope, the Act is substantially amended, prompt steps should be. taken to diffuse information of the amended law to those who are specially concerned. By such methods. and with more intense work on

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