The Indian Journal of Social Work December 1950

In most areas pressure on land has been increasing steadily for a long time and rise in the general standard of living has made this pressure more actually felt." The growth of the rural proletariat which has been attributed "to the loss of common riglis in the rural economy £lisuse of collective enterprise the subdivision of holdings the multiplication of rent receivers free mortgaging and [...] The decrease in the number of Indian workers was due in °part to the action of the Government of India in prohibiting the flow of unskilled labour into Ceylon. [...] In calculating the rate of absenteeism the procedure adopted differs from mill to mill in the same place and fromoplace to place in the same industry. [...] The following tables gives a comparative idea of the rate of absenteeism in cotton textile mills in a few centres of the country in the three years 1939 1944 and 1948: — Absenteeism in Cotton Textiles* Place Absenteeism in Percentage Of the three places in the Bombay State the rate of absenteeism is very high in Sholapur in all the three periods and it is I 'west in Ahmedabad. [...] As regards latrines in most of the Bombay chawls there is one latrine for 8 tenements.* After the Great War of 1914-18 to improve the working class housing conditions in the city and island of Bombay the Government launched on an industrial housing scheme under the auspices of the Development Dcopartment.