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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APPENDIX I. 199 PAigrs. 68. The inspection of cotton-ginning factories and other seasonal factories should be largely carried out by part-time inspectors. Officers of the grade of Industrial Surveyors should not be employed for this purpose. Selected revenue officers of suitable grade should be given a short course of instruction under the Chief Inspector with a view to their employment in districts where such factories are found. This system should not apply to tes factories in Bengal and Assam. Regular forms should be prepared by the Factory Inspection Department for issue to part-time inspectors and a copy of the report of each inspection should be submitted to the Chief Inspector of Factories wi on .s CuAPTER VIL—UNREGULATED FACTORIES. } A.— Small factories using power. 60. In the case of factories using power and employing less than 920 but not less than 10 persons, only the following sections of the Fac- tories Act should apply automatically :— Section 5, Chapter III (excluding sections 12 and 15), section 37 and the appropriate parts of Chapter VIII with section 50. Local Governments should retain the power of applying the whole Act by notification, and should be given power to apply selected sections to any such factory .. oo. 70. Local Governments should be given power to apply the sections specified above to similar places employing less than 10 persons where conditions are dangerous ws wn PY a +9 71. The * number employed > for this purpose should be the aggre- gate number employed for any part of the 24 hours .- ve B.—Fartories not using power. 72. A separate Act, brief and simple, should be passed to apply to factories, without power machinery, erploying 50 or more persons during any part of the year . w wn .. 2% $e 73. The starting age for children under this Act should be 10 years in the first instance, and protection in the matter of hours should be confined to children between 10 and 14 years I. . 74. Hours of children should fall within limits to be specified by local Governments, but in no case should the working hours exceed geven, nor should they fall outside a period of nine hours, with a rest interval of at least one hour. The overriding maxima should be embodied in the Act .. ay we oe op vs "75. No child who has been employed full time in a factory should be allowed to work overtime or to take work home after factory hours 76. The expediency of penalising the giving of advances to secure the labour of children and the execution of bonds pledging such labour should be examined by Government. In any case a bond pledging the labour of a person under 15 years executed for or on account of any consideration should be void. The above recommendation is general and not confined to factories mentioned jn this chapter . .- +3 vo 717. Every factory of this class should be entirely closed on one day of the week to be specified beforehand by the local Government. Subject to particular exemptions the closing day should be the same for all factories in the same district .. .n ae 78. The Act should require the observance of suitable standards in regard to buildings, latrines, ventilation, lighting and drainage, and might empower local Governments to apply welfare orders of a simple nature 09 03 09 100 101 101 102 102 102-3 103 DD

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