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The Textile Labour Association Ahmedabad (Memorandum Submitted to the Rent Inquiry Committee in August 1938 and to the Textile Labour Inquiry Committee in January 1939

1939

Owing to the varying circumstances due to the rapid expansion of the industry in the city and frequent changes in the character and sight of tenements occupied by working class it is very difficult to assess the exact rise in rent. [...] A plea for Municipal Housing for tile working classes in the Citi] of Ahmedabad Being a Statement prepared by the Ahmedabad Labour Union for submission to the Ahmedabad Municipality The Ahmedabad Municipality has been asked to undertake a programme of house building for the benefit of the working classes of the City. [...] The growing realization of the importance of housing from the wider national standpoint has led to a comparatively quick improvement in the conception of the standard of housing and the level of practical effort in this direction made in western countries. [...] Trained midwives cannot work properly in squalid and isanitary tenements and mothers and babies merely leave cle.;ri maternity homes to return to the filth of their own:' The resolution of the Government of Bombay on the report draws pointed attention to the need of improving the housing coditions of the Mill hands in the following words:—"25 Resolution: --- Government have read the report o [...] The local authorities had to contribute the annual product of a rate of one penny in the pound towards the loss resulting from the scheme the balance to be met by the Central Treasury.
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Pages
59
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142687
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Views of the Textile Labour Association Ahmedabad
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A Plea for municipal Rousing for the Working classes in the City of Ahmedabad
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Note
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Backmatter
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