GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INDIAN HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first Indian Factories’ Act was passed in-
A
1881
B
1885
C
1891
D
1894
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 15th March, 1881.) An Act to regulate labour in Factories.

Detailed explanation-2: -of Factory Act 1891. The main provision of this Act included: fixing daily 9 hours work child labourer’s between 9 to 14 years, 11 hours work for female labourer’s, daily half an hour break for Tiffin and one day’s compulsory rest in a week.

Detailed explanation-3: -Promulgation of First Indian Factory Act 1881 to improve the labour condition-It was primarily deals with the problem of child labour between the age of 7 to 12 year. Hazardous machinery to be properly fenced off. It was the first factory act which paved the ways for the successive factory Regulation.

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