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Calcutta University Special Readership Lectures. Principles and Problems of Indian Labour Legislation

1938

With a brief survey of its growth and procedure as the background, the author has devoted himself, in the present study, to the enunciation of the funda- mental principles and to the elucidation of the principal problems of Indian labour legislation with a view to securing its continued progress and indi- cated, in conclusion, its significance upon the wel- fare of the working classes and upon the [...] The Commission found the Act of 1901 to be unintelligible to almost all people, obsolete in many parts, and obstructive to the free flow of labour to Assam tea-gardens and made recom- mendations for the enactment of a new Act with the threefold object of (I) the freer movement of labour, (2) the greater security to labourers, and (3) the better administration of the law. [...] HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 17 In the meantime, the Royal Commission on Labour, referred to above, made; inter alia, several recommendations for the amendment of the Indian Factories Act, on the basis of which the Govern- ment of India drew up a Bill with a threefold purpose : —(1) the reduction of the hours of work; (2) the improvement of the working conditions; and (3) the better observance by factori [...] The chief provisions of the Act were as follows :—(1) The extension of the definition of a mine to include any excavation, irrespective of depth, for searching for or obtaining minerals ; (2) the limitation of the weekly hours of work to 54 underground and 60 aboveground; (3) the limitation of the working days to 6 a week ; (4) the prohibition of the employment of children under 13 years of age in [...] On the recommendation of both Chambers of the Indian Legislature for the consideration of the draft Convention and in consultation with the local Governments and Administrations, the Government of India passed the Indian Mines (Amendment) Act of 1935, which came into force on 1 October of the same year.
government politics public policy
Pages
302
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xiii Rajani Das view
Introductory
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Chapter I Historical Background
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Chapter II Legislative Procedure
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Chapter III Fundamental Principles
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Chapter IV Principal Problems
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Chapter V The Social Significance
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Appendix
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Index
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Works of Dr. R. K. Das
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