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 XX. - Recruitment for Assam

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RECRUITMENT FOR ASSAM, 269 possibility of abolishing all restrictions. We have been assisted in this direction by the official examination of the question in 1925 and sub- sequent years, when the Government of India again raised the question of free recruitment, but were advised by practically all those acquainted with conditions that the abolition of all control would be inadvisable. We have considered the opinions expressed at length in this correspondence and have reviewed them with the assistance of witnesses both in the recruiting provinces and in Assam. Recruitment and Forwarding. There are three stages in the emigrant’s progress to be consider- ed :— (1) up to the time of his despatch from his own district ; (2) from that time until his arrival on the garden ; (3) after arrival there. The term “free recruitment > has often been used to denote the position that would be reached with the abolition of all control. Here, however, We propose to use the term with reference to the first of the above stages only, and in that sense free recruitment, in our opinion, is not inconsistent with control over the transit of the emigrant. The considerations which determine how far control is required at each of the first two stages are not necessarily the same. This point is recognised clearly in the evidence given to us by the Indian Tea Association which, in asking for freedom to choose the agencies by which it will recruit, contemplates the possi- bility of combining this freedom with control over the forwarding of vecruits. The representatives of the industry were also anxious that, as far as possible, control by the industry should be substituted for official control. Their plea was, in fact, that they should be given the opportun- ity of showing what they could achieve if this were done. Government could retain the power to re-impose restrictions, but it would be the aim of the industry to demonstrate by the actual working of the system that there was no necessity for re-introducing control. We consider that this is a reasonable claim, and in the proposals that follow we have done our best +0 meat 1+ A New Act. The first necessity is the enactment of a new Emigration Act and the repeal of the Assam Labour and Emigration Act. The Indian Tea Association has suggested that it might be possible to retain the Act and to construct upon it a ‘better system of control. We are satisfied that bhis course is not possible, even if it were expedient. We have enumerated the principal defects of Act VI of 1901, and are satisfied that the time 13 overdue for its replacement by an Act which is intelligible and is satisfactory from both the legal and the administrative points of view. Essentials of Any Scheme. The main criterion which must be satisfied by any scheme of control is that it must give a reasonable prospect of eliminating itself. We regard as one of the gravest defects of the present system the De

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