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

Collection:: Economics Books

38 CHAPTER V. stood at 4,069 in 1921 and 8,129 in 1929. Most of the latter increase represents small factories, and many of them work only for short seasons, so that in numbers the staff, if not completely adequate, is more so than was the case in 1921. So far as quality is concerned, we are happy to report that this has been more than maintained since the constitutional reforms of 1920. We were impressed by the enthusiasm and the capacity which the inspectors bring to their difficult task and we are satisfied that the standard of enforcement of the Act has risen steadily, in spite of the constantly increasing complexity of factory administration which has resulted from the expansion and development of industry and the changes in the law. Enforcement of the Factories Act. In most provinces the great majority of the permanent factories are inspected at least once a year, the more important factories receiving two or three inspections. In some provinces, notably Bombay, Madras, the Punjab and the Central Provinces, the staff has proved equal to inspecting nearly every factory, perennial and seasonal, at least once a year. We show below the number of persons convicted under the Factories Act in each major province and the minor provinces, together with the average number of operatives in each provinee throughout the period. Persons convicted. Average number of operatives. Province. Assam .. . Bengal .. .. Bihar and Orissa .. Bombay .. Burma .. ae Central Provinces ,. Madras .. .. Punjab .. 0% United Provinces .. Minor provinces .. Total a ’ . ‘ . 1091.93 33 7 41 24 113 50 68 251 Total 1024-26. (1927-29. | 1921-29. . & 145 203 4 10 211 211 56 98 100 164 224) 329 67, 173 19 Gl A 381 21 463 178 377 603 308 “or 61 4 8492 1 1.810 2 503 1921.29. 38,000 541,000 69,000 365,000 96,000 65,000 124,000 50,000 80,000 28 000 1.457.000 Control of the Inspectorate. As the table shows, in the leading provinces there has been a steady increase in the number of prosecutions and this corresponds with increasing improvements in administration. In only two provinces is the number of prosecutions markedly low—Assam and Bihar and Orissa. In the former case, owing to peculiar local difficulties which are discussed slsewhere, many factories have been uninspected each vear. In the

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