§ Mr. SCURRasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the municipality of Calcutta has provided chawls, or other housing accommodation, for the workers in the jute mills similar to those provided by the authorities in Bombay?
§ Earl WINTERTONAccording to the Report on the Municipal Administration of Calcutta for 1921–2, which is the last received, a scheme had been prepared for the erection of sanitary dwellings for the poorer classes but the matter was then in abeyance for want of funds. I have no later information. The Bengal Factories Report for 1924 describes the improvements that were being carried out in the provision of dwellings by some of the large jute and cotton mills. Copy of this Report will be placed in the Library.