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 V. - Working conditions in factories

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WORKING CONDITIONS IN FACTORIES. 67 Hindus and Musalmans, and the extent of their use showed that they supplied a need and were appreciated by the workers. We recommend that the possibilities in this direction be examined with a view to a wider adoption of amenities of this kind. IV. ADMINISTRATION. The Inspectorate. We turn now to the question of the enforcement of the Factories Act. The main responsibility for inspection rests on the whole-time inspection staff, the strength of which in 1921 and 1929 is shown in the following table :— 991. 1099 Province. Bengal . Bombay we Burma “ Oentral * Pro- Tinces vie Madras .. Punjab we Tnited Pro- vinces. Total .. Chief nspect- Ors. [nspect- ors. % Asst, (nspect- ors. Total. Chief nspect- NTS. [nspect- ora. 27 £88t, ‘nspect- | ors. x Total. i0 2 1 3 3 ) Ad 20 | \ * Approximate figure ; staff is, or was, combined with the boiler inspection staff, Assam, where the number of non-seasonal factories is very small, hag appointed an inspector since 1929. Previously it made a contribu- tion to the maintenance of the Bengal staff, which was responsible for inspection in Assam also. Of the minor provinces the North-West Frontier Province, Delhi and Ajmer-Merwara are under the charge of the Inspector of Factories for the Punjab, Baluchistan has a technical officer who combines the inspection of factories with other duties, while the few factories in Coorg and Bangalore are inspected by non-technical part-time officers. As the table indicates, there has been a gratifying increase in the inspection staff in the last decade. The increase in num- bers in the permanent Inspectorate is approximately proportionate to the increase in the number of factories suhiect to the Factories Act. which

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