

( 112A ) 



Organiztion of 7. The grades of labour. These are defined in the Famine 

 labour and staff. Code. They are summarised for clearness of subsequent details 



LABOUR 



A. Mates of gangs. 



B. Strong men and women. 



C. Weak or old men and women, youths, and maidens 

 of 15 or 16 years old. 



D. Children 1014 years of age. 

 GK Children 7 10 years of age. 

 H. Infants in arms. . 

 STAFF 



Foremen. One foreman to 150 labour. 

 Managers. One to each work. 

 Circle Officers (i.e., Range Officers). 



5-6 works and 3,000 to 5,000 units of labour is as 

 much as one Range Officer can adequately look after. 

 He must see each work once a week. The Divisional 

 Forest Officers from 12 to 20 works, 10,000 to 15,000 

 units of labour is as much as the Divisional Forest 

 Officers can control. He should see each work once a 

 month. 



The labour that comes to the work is classified and divided 

 into gangs. Most of the work consists of 



(1) Digging. 



(2) Ridging. 



(3) Bandhing. 



A digging gang consists of 30 B, units (either male gang or 

 female gang). 



A ridging gang consists of 30 C, units (male and female mixed) 

 to make the ditch, with a corresponding number of D or Q units 

 to make the ridge. One worker makes the trench and ridge while 

 the child breaks up the clods on the ridge to make a suitable 

 seed bed for the development of the young seedling. 

 A bandhing gang consists of 

 10 or 12 B diggers. 

 10 to 20 C earth-carriers. 

 10 C or D rammers. 



10 to 20 or more G children and feeble old folk for clod- 

 breaking. 



