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Famine Enquiry Commission Report on Bengal

1945

Union Boards.—UnionBoards the smallest unit of local self-government in the Province came into existence on the passing of the Bengal Village SelGovernment Act of 1919 and combine the functions of the Chowkidari Partchayats under the V inage Chowkidari Act of 1870 and the Union Committees under the Local Self-Government Act of 1885. [...] The duties of a Board are generally speaking first the control of dafiadars and chot137cidars (village police servants) of the secondly the carrying out of measures for the sanitation and conservancy of the Union and the improvement of public-. health within the Union and thirdly the construction and maintenance of local roads and water-ways. [...] 3. The supply of rice in the province at the beginning of a calendar year consists of almost the whole of the aman crop reaped at the end of the preceding year and "old rice" that is the balance of earlier grown and imported rice carried over from the previous year. [...] Current supply (1928 to 1937).—We use the term current supply in.relation to a calendar year to mean the yield of the.aman crop reaped at the end of the previous year the yield of the ban) and aus crops reaped during the year plus imports into and minus exports out of the province during the year. [...] So delicate was the balance between actual starvation and bare subsistence that the slightest tilting of the scale in the value and supply of food was enough to put it out of the reach of many and to bring large classes within the range of famine On the 29th November 1941 immediately before the beginning of the war with Japan the Central Goverment gave the provinces concurrent powers under
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Pages
244
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140961
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Part I Famine in Bengal
1-107 unknown view
Part II Death and Disease in the Bengal Famine
108-146 unknown view
Part III Food Administration & Rehabilitation in Bengal
147-200 unknown view
Appendices
201-236 unknown view