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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CHAPTER XXIV. published after a delay which diminishes their utility. We recognise the difficulty where provincial statistics have to be co-ordinated and recom- mend that an examination be made of the causes of dealy with a view %0 devising a method which will ensure more prompt publication. Mines Statistics. In respect of mines a full annual report is prepared by the Chief Inspector of Mines and published by the Government of India. The report and the statistics which accompany it deal both with production and with labour and the particular feature of both parts of the publica- tion is the attention given to accidents and their causes. The statis- tical information, which in respect of labour gives particulars similar to bhoke supplied by the factories returns, is compiled from returns statu- torily required under the Coal Mines Regulations and the Metalliferous Mines Regulations issued in 1926. Under the Mining Regulations parti- culars have also to be furnished regarding earnings and the Chief Inspector of Mines publishes statistics based on these returns. As in bhe case of factories, it is desirable that figures if possible should be obtained annually which would give some indication of the total number of persons employed in the coal mines. Such figures would be particularly aseful where there is a great difference between this number and the average number employed. We recommend that the question of secur- ing such figures be examined. As we have already indicated, the present statistics, particularly in respect of coal mines, give no indication of the total number of persons employed wholly or part-time. Plantation Statistics. In respect of plantations, the issue of periodical official inform- ation is virtually confined to Assam. Published returns are prepared annually by the Commissioners of the two divisions of Assam ; these give a review of conditions relating to immigrant labour during the year, and they are accompanied by statistics of emigration of the labour popu- lation, mortality among labourers, average earnings, complaints, in- spections and other matters. These statistics, including those relating bo earnings, are based on statutory returns which employers are required bo submit by rules made under the Assam Labour and Emigration Act. Particulars of emigration to Assam under that Act, are also published an- nually by other provincial Governments, but there are no regular statistics for plantations in other provinces. As regards Assam, particulars might be given of the number of labourers employed who do not live on the gardens, and the vital statistics given in the annual report should include both births and deaths. A start should also be made with the collection of statistics relating to plantations in other provinces and parti- cularly ip Bengal, Madras, Coorg and Burma. We recommend the adoption of statutes requiring planters to furnish statistics relating to the labour forces employed by them. To begin with, these might be confined to the numbers of men, women and children employed, births, deaths and earnings.

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