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

199 CHAPTER XXII, the matters in respect of which they were empowered to issue regulations. We have endeavoured to outline these in the preceding paragraphs. Certain of them are of such essential importance that the provincial Government should be armed with sufficient power to ensure that the Boards prescribe adequate standards. Within this category we would place— (@) the provision of drinking water ; (b) the provision of conservancy, sanitation and drainage; (c) the provision of medical facilities ; and {d) the prescribing of minimum standards of new housing accom- modation. We contemplate that, in respect of these matters, the draft regulations of a Board would be submitted to the provincial Government in the Ministry of Public Health, which should have the option of approving bhem or referring them back with suggestions for modifications. On the re-submission of the regulations, Government should be able either to approve them or to modify them in such manner as it thinks fit. In the avent of the failure of the Board to make any appropriate regulations, Government, after giving the Board due warning, could issue the necessary regulations. In respect of other matters also, the power to ‘ssue regulations should, we think, be subject to the approval of the provincial Government; and in this case up to a point the procedure should be similar, i.e., Government would have the power to refer the draft regulations back to the Board with suggestions for their amend- ment. But, if the Board were not prepared to accept these suggestions, Government should not have the power to modify or supersede their regulations, but merely to approve or to reject them in their final form. In respect of matters of this kind, we contemplate that the scrutiny of Government would be directed first to ensuring that the Board was not exceeding its powers and secondly towards assisting it by constructive suggestions for its consideration. Other Powers of Government. Government should also have the power, through its inspectors, of instituting prosecutions of persons defaulting against any of the regulations, whether issued by the Board or by Government. Where an inspector considered a prosecution desirable, he would submit the pro- posal in the first instance to the Board and not to Government, and the power of Government should only be invoked after the Board had refused bo prosecute and where it was clear that there were no sufficient grounds for such refusal. These reserve powers will enable Government, where necessary, to intervene without resort to the ultimate power (which it should also possess) of superseding a Board altogether. The aim of Government should be to assist and encourage the Boards in every way possible, and to limit the use of its reserve powersto cases where a Board had definitely failed. We think that in practice Government will not find ib necessary to interfere, but the. powers we have suggested should be sufficient to ensure that unduly lax standards are not adopted by particular

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