HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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To report on the existing conditions of labour and to make recommendations
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To review the fitness of India for further political reforms
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To draw up a plan for financial reforms for India
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To develop a comprehensive scheme for Civil Services in India
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Royal Commission on Labour (or the Whitley Commission on Labour) was a Royal Commission set up in 1929 to investigate the working conditions on plantations in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -It also recommended a Minimum Wage fixation machinery for industries where workers are not well organised. The Whitley Commission also invited the attention of the Govt, towards certain unfair deductions made by the employers from the wages and emphasised the need to prevent them by recourse to necessary legislation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Commission recommended the adoption of suitable legislation enabling the Competent Authority to collect and collate information regarding the living, working and socio-economic conditions of industrial labour. Whitley was offered a knighthood for his work on this report, but he declined.
Detailed explanation-4: -Notes: The Royal Commission on Labour or the Whitley Commission on Labour was set up in 1929 to inquire into the existing conditions of labour in industrial undertakings and plantations in India.
Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is Indian Constitutional Reforms. The Simon commission or the Indian Statutory Commission arrived in India in 1928 to study constitutional reform.