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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record (Third Series) October 1901

1901

The results of their inquiry are foreshadowed in the remarks made by the Commission after narrating the high ratios the total population reached in certain districts and the steady rise in the numbers on relief uninfluenced by the harvesting of the spring crops and the setting in of the rains. [...] To take only a few : the rush on the works in the Buldana district of Berar and in the Chattisgarh division of the Central Provinces and the complete disorganization of those works; the failure to open works at an early period of the distress in the Central Provinces ; in Bombay the unreadiness of the Public Works Department in nearly all districts/ the system of weekly instead of daily payments [...] In the next sections the Commission describe with etreme minuteness the organization required for a welmanaged relief-work the duties of the controlling officer the strength of the subordinate establishment the proper number for a gang the amount of the task and the system of measurement and payment whether payment should be made in cash or in grain and whether to a whole gang or to e [...] In this the most difficult branch of the measures which have to be taken fbr the relief of famine the Report affords little useful guidance for the adminitrators of the future as to how the distribution of doles should be guided so as to be sufficient for the need of the sufferers without running the danger of demoralizing the population by offering help on easy terms to those who are not r [...] The resolution concludes : The Commission makes a series of important suggestions as to the improvement of the condition of the agricultural classes recommends a greater elasticity of revenue collection generally and particularly in the Bombay Deccan the establishment of agricultural banks the encouragement of land improvement the expediture of a larger share of State funds on irrigation
government politics public policy
Pages
221
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
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