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

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HEALTH AND WELFARE IN PLANTATIONS, 419 save on rare occasions, and that they will carry the campaign for the uplift of the health of the workers far beyond the minimum requirements which the State has a right to demand. Previous Experience. * Boards of Health for industrial areas are no new conception. For years past similar bodies have been at work in the mining districts of Jharia and Asansol, and we have reason to believe that planters generally would welcome a controlling Board responsible for bringing the backward plantations up to the level of the more progressive, and for helping and advising individual managers in raising general health standards. It is interesting to note that in 1925 the Minister for Public Health introduced a measure in the Bengal Legislative Council for the control and sanitation of plantation areas in Bengal by means of a Tea Gardens Board of Health. The Bill did not pass into law, but it included many of the features we have in mind. The only other body which has taken any action regarding the formation of a controlling Board for plantations is the Anamalais Planters’ Association. This area is a taluk of the Coimbatore District and, for some years past, the Planters’ Association has made several attempts to obtain the sanction of Government for separation from Coimbatore and for the formation of a new organisation, complete in itself, which would exercise the functions of a loeal Roard for the whole area. Suitable Areas. The area to be allotted to each Board must depend on local considerations and we do not desire to suggest definite limits. It is necessary, on the one hand, to avoid giving a Board an unmanageably large area and, on the other hand, to make it possible for a Board to pro- vide an adequate staff without excessive cost. We imagine that in Assam one Board could suitably be constituted for the Surma Valley and two for the Assam Valley, one of which, with its centre at Jorhat, might have charge of the lower part of the valley and the other the north- eastern districts. In the Dooars there might be a single Board, but we doubt if that Board will be able to cater for the other planting areas of the Bengal Presidency. In South India we think that separate Boards would be required for Coorg and the Anamalais; but, whilst it may be possible to combine the Nilgiris and the Wynaad areas under one Board, we see disadvantages in such combination and suggest consulta- tion between the Madras Government and planters’ associations on this DOME Inclusion of other Areas. One difficulty which arises in some districts is the existence of other areas adjoining and interspersed with plantations. For complete public control of malaria and epidemic disease generally, it is undesir- able to confine the health administration to the plantations themselves, whilst excluding the areas adjoining them. Infectious and contagious liseages do not respect boundary lines and fences. It was presumably Daf

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