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Control of work. 
Every Saturday afternoon works managers prepare the consoli¬ 
dated weekly summary for their work and submit it to their Range 
officer. He consolidates for his Range and submits to the Divisional 
Famine office on Sunday morning. 
The consolidated accounts for the Division have to be ready and 
submitted to the Collectorate on Monday morning. Obviously there 
is no scope for dilatoriness or unpunctuality. 
Then on Monday the exact amount of the weekly expenditure is 
obtained from the Treasury, and distributed exactly according to their 
accounts to Range officers. 
Thus everyone is again in receipt of his full permanent advance 
and so it goes on week after week. 
There are of course no monthly accounts. The audit of accounts 
is done in the Collector’s office. 
9. The Divisional Forest officer is solely responsible for all technical 
details, for the character and quantity of 
work done, for the fixing of tasks, for the 
laying out and construction of bandhs, and all similar details. 
He is also very largely responsible for the due observance of Famine 
Code procedure, but in this he is largely helped by the Collector and 
his inspecting officers who bring to notice mistakes occurring in proce¬ 
dure. 
For Forest Famine works, intense supervision and continual sur¬ 
prise inspections are absolutely essential, more so than for any form 
of Departmental Forest work with which the writer is acquainted. 
This intense control is necessary not only to prevent Swindling by 
Works Managers and Foremen, but to keep the work up to the mark 
and ensure that full tasks are done. 
The complete check and inspection of a Forest Famine Work is a 
long business ; para. 42, Appendix D, of Famine Code, details Some points 
to be looked to, but the Forest officer had in addition to examine and 
check the technical work. Experience only will show how a famine 
work should be inspected, it cannot be explained. It takes over three 
hours to do properly and is rather an ordeal to carry out day after day 
in the middle of the hot weather in the pitiless shadeless ravines, with a 
shade temperature of 110° to 120° F. 
SECTION III.—Miscellaneous. 
10. There are several miscellaneous points worth recording as a 
result of experience gained in the 1919 
famine work. One point is the cost per 
acre. It must be emphasised that the cost of soil preparation by ordi¬ 
nary Departmental methods is no criterion or standard when estimating 
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