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half have gone to their villages while some of the remainder are sitting down at colleries because they are refusing contract work e.g. coal loading ?
(c) Loading of coal on surface, loading and unloading of sand and removing of overburden in quarries.
(d) The earnings of women so employed are from ten to twelve annas per day (excluding half seer free rice and bonus of two annas for each woman) as against twelve annas to fourteen annas per day paid to underground workers.
(e) Women so employed have lost the concession of free supply of milk which was granted only by reason of working underground.
(f) Attention of the Honourable Member is invited to the answer given in reply to part (b) of starred question No. 466 on the 25th February 1946.
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- Amendment in the Rent Control Orders in Delhi
- Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : Will the Honourable the Labour Member kindly state :
(a) whether it is a fact that prior to January, 1944, the Rent Control Orders in Delhi permitted a landlord to get a tenant ejected if the house was required for his own use ;
(b) whether it is a fact that the above mentioned orders were amended in January, 1944, and the revised order precluded landlords residing in Delhi from ejecting tenants even if the houses were required for their own use ; if so, the reasons for the amendment ;
(c) whether their attention has been drawn to a letter from a house-owner in the Hindustan Times of the 22nd December, 1945 ;
(d) whether Government propose to consider the advisability of restoring to landlords the right to eject a tenant in case they required their houses for their own use ; and
(e) if it is a fact that house situation has become easier than before
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1946, 27th March 1946, p. 2964.