Labour Investigation Committee Government of India. Report on an Enquiry into Conditions of Labour in the Silk Industry in India

The guiding principle in the selecction of centres of survey was to make the survey regionally representative so as to discover differences in the conditions of labour in the same industry jn different parts of the country. [...] The following are briefly the principal operations in the manufacture of Report of the Indian Tariff Board regarding the grant of Protection to the Sericulture] Industry 1933. [...] The sericultural belt runs from the Punjab and Kashmir in the North to Madras and Mysore in the South from Bombay in the West to Bengal and Assam in the East. [...] Workmg conditions hours of work and shifts.—The working conditions inside these fkiei ones appear to be satisfactory in spite of the fact that at the The location of the Industry published by the Office of the Economic Advise! to the Government of India page 29.ti time of the enquiry there was no labour legislation in force in the State of Kashmir. [...] However both the factories in Mysore have introduced a Provident Fund scheme for their employees in the Government Factory the workers who have put in 3 years' service are admitted to the benefits of the Provident fund the contribution of the workers and the management being one anna per rupee of wages each.