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 XXI. - Wages on planatations

Collection:: Economics Books

14 CHAPTER XXII. known, specialists in this class of material (who already exist) would doubtless make every effort to meet it, and in time circulating libraries of suitable slides and films could be built up. Welfare Centres. Many planters and their wives devote considerable time and energy to the welfare of the resident women and children, but the lack of women doctors, health visitors and trained midwives has made it difficult to organise forms of welfare work particularly applicable to these sections of the plantation communities. The experiment of employing 2» trained health visitor has been made successfully in one of the Assam gardens, and we consider that great soope exists for a wide extension of work of this kind. The work of a health visitor, if it is to give the best results, should always be supervised by the garden medical officer and, where a group medical organisation exists, the woman doctor with two or three health visitors should be able to organise welfare centres on each garden of the group. Each centre should be open at least one day a week and regular visits by the woman doctor give the health visitor opportunities of bringing to her early notice cases requiring medical attention. The welfare centres should be situated near the house lines, and in many cases accommodation could probably be found in a vacant room in the lines themselves. - The necessary fur- niture and equipment need be neither elaborate nor expensive and, with small additions to the latter, the same building could if necessary be used as a creche. Experience goes to prove that the women workers quickly learn to appreciate the advantages to themselves and their children of attendance at such a centre. We believe that extension of this form of welfare work would prove of value to all concerned. Orphans. Normally in the case of young children who become orphaned and have no relations settled on the estate, arrangements are made by the manager for their adoption by other estate workers, the cost of their maintenance falling on the plantation. It is seldom that any steps are taken to communicate with the villages of their origin with a view to ascertaining whether near relations exist who might be desirous of claim- ing them. Werecommend that in all such cases some suitable authority, such as the district magistrate, should invariably be approached to get into touch with any existing relations. Where a desire for the return of the child is expressed, arrangements should be made for repatriation. Employment of Children. We now come to the age at which it should be permissible for a child to be employed as a worker on a plantation. It is significant that the Central Government have seen fit to protect Indian children who emigrate to the plantations of Ceylon and Malaya by securing that the starting age for employment shall be 10 years. The practice throughout Indian plantations varies considerably. At least one association admitted

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