SEASONAL FACTORIES. 89 
of the grade of deputy collector or sub-divisional magistrate be given 
a short intensive training and then employed in districts where factories 
of the type we have mentioned are to be found. Here they would form 
part of the magisterial and revenue staff and would be required to devote 
only part of their time during the appropriate season to factory 
inspection. Officers below these grades, such as Industrial Surveyors 
who are employed as Factory Inspectors in the Punjab and Delhi, 
should not be used for this work as they frequently lack the necessary 
authority and status to give them standing in the eyes of the employer. 
Moreover, the performance of their other duties may be made difficult 
where punitive action has been taken as a result of contraventions of 
the Factories Act. We suggest the omission of the tea factories of 
Assam and Bengal from this system as we have made special recommend- 
ation for the former elsewhere and the latter are best dealt with, as at 
present, by a full-time officer in the season. 
Control of Inspection. 
A necessary corollary to the efficient working of this system is the 
laying down of definite standards of inspection, both as regards the 
number of visits to be paid during the season and the type of report to be 
submitted to the factory inspection department. For the latter purpose 
regular forms should be carefully prepared by that department for issue 
to all ex-officio inspectors and a copy of the report of each inspection made 
by such officers should be submitted to the Chief Inspector of Factories. 
We see no objection to the District Magistrates retaining powers as 
Inspectors of Factories, but ordinarily they cannot and need not be re- 
quired to act in that capacity if the recommendations made above are 
carried out. A certain degree of supervision of the part-time inspectors 
would be a useful service on their part.