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

Collection:: Economics Books

STATISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION. 455 in addition to his other duties, could assume responsibility (under the heads of the administration) for the enforcement of labour laws in these provinces. If the responsibility of the Government of India for the direct administration of labour matters is diminished, it would be possible to sive secretariat duties to the Labour Commissioner, and his post could thus be similar to that of the Educational Commissioner with the Government of India. Here, asin the provinces, much of the work that would fall on the Labour Commissioner is already discharged by other agencies, and the creation of the appointment should set free the time of other officers for other duties. Additional staff, however, would be re- quired for the statistical work. The central and provincial Commis- sioners should be able to travel about and should be encouraged to do so. Labour Ministers. The responsibility for policy naturally lies with Government and must remain there. We anticipate that in future Ministers will be respon- sible for labour questions, and suggestions have been made to us that, in some provinces at least, there should be actual Ministers of Labour, whose primary or sole concern would be with labour. We do not feel competent to advise on the question of the strength of the ministry in any province or in the Central Government. This must depend on con- siderations outside our scope. But we believe that the subject will require much more attention than it has received in the past, and it is doubtful if Ministers will be able to devote adequate attention to labour if it be combined with finance or the administration of law and order in one portfolio. We suggest that, at least in the more import- ant industrial provinces, labour should be mentioned in the designation of the Minister concerned. There is something in a name, and the fact that a Minister is designated as responsible for labour will encourage him to see and the public to expect that labour matters receive adequate atten- tion from his Department.

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