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A variety of miscellaneous jobs on each work also absorbs each 

 its own small gang, i.e. (4) fencing, (5) well-making, (6) clearing 

 trees and shrubs, i.7) water-supply, (8) road-makin, etc. 



The standard task for every type of work has to be clearly . Standardiza- 

 defined. After a good deal of trial and experiment, the following tionoftask - 

 standard tasks were finally adopted in the Btawah 1919 famine 

 work : 



(i) Digging. The varieties of soil-hardness in these ravine 

 lands are so considerable that one standard task for all conditions 

 of soil was found to be impracticable. The following variations 

 - were adopted : 



fa) In soft flat ravine bottoms and where the soil had been 

 worked in previous years - 



1 B man 160 c.ft, (160 sq, ft. to 1 ft. dep^ih). . 

 1 gang of 30 B men, 4,800 o.ft. 



(b) On average unworked land and moderate slopes 



1 B man--120 o.ft. 



1 gang of 30 B men, 3,600 c.ft. 



(c) On hard kankar ridges and very steep slopes 



1 B man 100 c.ft. 



1 gang of 30 B men, 3,000 c.ft. 



(d) Digging water-escapes for band/is. Individual task 



1 B man 84 c.ft., i.e., 7' long, 6' broad, 2' deep. 



For B women gangs for (aj and (b) The task was two-thirds 

 of task for B men gangs. 



(According to Famine Code rules, aAvoman is paid the same 

 as a man, but does two-thirds of his work.) 



(ii) Ridding. This work involves digging a trench 1' deep 

 and 2' broad (in soil previously dug by digging gangs) and heaping 

 the soil therefrom in a triangular ridge on the downhill side. 

 Tasks- 



B men 60 running feet of trench. 

 B women 40 running feet of trench. 

 C class 30 running feet of trench. 



D and G- children, breaking clods on the ridges, 1 child to 

 1 ridger (very old and feeble men and women were 

 often used on this work also). 



(iii) Bandhing. The task was 120 c.ft. of earth or 1,440 o.ft. 

 per gang of 12 men, if earth obtained from borrow pits. 



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