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 XXIV. - Statistics and administration

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443 CHAPTER XXIV.—STATISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION. In this chapter we deal mainly with the relations of the adminis- tration to labour, reserving questions that raise constitutional issues for the following chapter. We devote the first part of the chapter to the question of the collection of intelligence, and particularly statistical in- formation, regarding labour. Inthesecond part we deal with the general administration of labour subjects by the various Governments concerned, and indicate how some of the recommendations we have already made in connection with the administration of special subjects can be co-ordinat- ed. I. STATISTICS AND INTELLIGENCE. . Factory Statistics. The existing statistical information relating to labour can be briefly reviewed. So far as factories are concerned, there is published in each province an annual report on the working of the Factories Act. These reports, in addition to reviewing the administration of the Act for the preceding year, contain a little information regarding wages and other matters affecting the welfare of the workers. They are accompanied by fairly full statistics giving details of the number of factories, the work- ing population, their hours of employment, accidents, inspections, prose- cutions under the Act and other matters. The information contained in the various provincial reports is summarised in “ Statistics of Factories ”, an annual publication issued by the Government of India. To this is appended a short note on the working of the Factories Act during the year which calls attention to the more important features of the year’s administration. The form of the returns is prescribed by the Central Government under the Factories Act, and their submission is obliga- bory on factory owners. These returns do not make any distinction between perennial and seasonal factories. As conditions are very different in these two classes and their combination in one set of statistics gives a misleading impression of factory activity and the re- gulation of factory work, we recommend that all the statistical tables at present prepared be compiled and published separately in respect of perennial and seasonal factories. So far as we are in a position to judge, the factory statistics are reasonably accurate, but more attention should be devoted in some provinces to checking the figures supplied by factory dwners in respect of the average number of workers employed. We recommend that Government should examine the possibility of obtaining from the factory owner the total number of persons employed in his factory for not less than one month in a year. We are aware of the difficulties but we believe that in the perennial factories particularly the maintenance of some record of this type would be of advantage to employers in obtaining the facts relating to turnover. We further recommend that the Factories Act be amended so as to make it possible bo call for returns in respect of wages following the analogy of the Mines Act. These statistics are not usually published until the second year following the vear to which they relate. and other statistics are frequently

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