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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524 APPENDIX I. 316. (a) The Director of Public Health, his assistants and the dis- trict health officers should be ex-officio inspectors of plantations - (6) As soon as a complete health service comes into being in Assam and Bengal, the inspecting powers of Civil Surgeons should be transferred to the officers of the Health Department. , 3 ‘. 317. (a) Boards of Health and Welfare should be established under statute for convenient planting areas .. - we “a (5) Each Board should have a majority of planter representa- tives and should include a Collector or Deputy Commissioner from the districts covered, the Director of Public Health (or one of his assistants as deputy), the district health officer and persons nominated by the local Government to represent workers. It is desirable that the Board should include at least one woman member ; the Protector of Immigrants should have the right to attend but not to vote .. .s {¢) The ares to be allotted to each Board will depend on local considerations, but Government should remain directly responsible for public health in adjoining areas which are interspersed with plantations (d) (?) Each Board should be financed by means of an annual cess levied on all plantations within its area. The cess may be based on the planted acreage or on the resident population, but the final decision 88 to the method to be adopted should be made after consultation be: tween the local Governments and the industry 2 We (#4) A rebate upto two-thirds of the cess collected should be made to estates according to a system of marks awarded by medical inspecting authorities for housing, medical facilities, anti-malarial work and other amenities of which they approve ws oe (it) Government, in consultation with the industry, should examine the possibility of transferring the accumulated balance at the eredit of the Assam Labour Board, less all proper expenses involved in winding up its affairs, to the Boards of Health and Welfare in Assam .. (¢) The chief executive officer of the Board should be a whole- time experienced medical officer with public health qualifications .. (f} In respect of maternity benefit legislation the Board should be the administrative authority for the area under its control as 318. (a) The Act constituting the Boards and prescribing their procedure should detail, as far as possible, their duties and the matters in respect of which they may issue regulations. Before these are issued, they should be submitted to the local Government, which should have the power to refer them back to the Board with suggestions for their amendment. In the case of regulations dealing with certain impor- tant matters, such as the provision of drinking water, conservancy, sanitation, drainage, medical facilities and the prescribing of minimum standards of new housing accommodation, the local Government should have the power either to approve them or to modify them in such manner as it thinks fit. In the case of other regulations the local Government should not have the power to modify or supersede the regu- lations proposed by the Board 5 .. .e - (b) Government should have the power through its inspectors of instituting prosecutions for infringements of any regulations, but thi power should only be invoked after the Board, without sufficient reason, had refused to prosecute . .: .s ‘s . {¢) Government should also retain some financial control .. 319. District health officers should act as Government inspectors of plantations and should be empowered to deal with breaches of public health laws and regulations on estates . PagEs. 417 417 418 418 4110.20 420 420 421 421 121 121.2 422 4923 14%

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