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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIeS.
INDUSTRIES.
THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES is mainly
confined to the development and progress of small-scale and
large-scale industries in the State, as its control over the
development of cottage industries was, in December 1946, transferred
to the Department of Industrial Co-operatives and Village Industries
and its control over technical education and the various schemes
related to it was, in June 1948, transferred to the Director of
Technical Education.
Organization.
The officer directly in charge of small-scale and
large-scale industries in the Kolhapur district is the Assistant
Director of Industries (Class I State Service), who has his
headquarters in Poona, and whose jurisdiction also extends to the
districts of North Satara, South Satara Sholapur, Ratnagiri and
Poona. He works directly under the Director of Industries,
Maharashtra State. He is also in charge of work connected with the
administration of the Bombay Weights and Measures Act (XV of 1932)
and the Industrial Statistics Act (XIX of 1942). Besides collecting
statutory statistics under the Industrial Statistics Act, 1942, he
collects industrial and commercial information on a voluntary basis.
He conducts commercial and industrial surveys required by the State
or the Union Government and undertakes investigation in connection
with references and complaints received from Indian embassies abroad
and foreign embassies in India. He also conducts investigations in
connection with the Merchandise Marks Act (IV of 1889) and reports
cases of improper use of names and emblems specified in the schedule
to the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper use of) Act (XII of
1950), for trade, business, calling Or profession etc. Purchase of
stores is another subject under his jurisdiction. Under the State
Aid to Industries Rules, he is empowered to sanction loans up to a
limit of Rs. 1,000 in each case to applicants in his jurisdiction,
subject to the condition that the total amount sanctioned by him
does not exceed Rs. 5,000 in any one year. His miscellaneous duties
extend to investigating into applications (made for industrial
purposes) from parties in his area for land acquisition and erection
of buildings and for essentiality certificates in connection with
the import, export and purchase of controlled materials, such as
iron and steel, cement, etc.
The Assistant Director is assisted in his work by an
Industries Officer stationed at Poona, one Senior Industries
Inspector, three Junior Industries Inspectors, four Manual
Assistants and a small ministerial staff. This technical staff
attends mainly to the work in the Kolhapur district and the Miraj
and Jath talukas of South Satara district.
The duties assigned to Inspectors of Weights and
Measures under the Bombay Weights and Measures Rules are carried out
by the Industries Inspectors. The main purpose of the Bombay Weights
and Measures Act is to provide for the adoption and compulsory use
of standard weights and measures in the State. No weight or measure
or weighing or measuring instrument may be sold, delivered or used
for trade, unless it has been verified or reverified in the manner
prescribed by Rules made under the Act and stamped by an Inspector
with a stamp of verification. Fees are fixed for the verification,
stamping, etc. It is the duty of the Inspectors to carry out the
verification and stamping and collect the fees.
The Industries Inspectors have also duties assigned
to them under the Industrial Statistics Act. This Act is applicable
to all factories registered under Sections 2m (i) and 2m (ii) of the
Factories Act, 1948, but the scope of the Census of Manufacturing
Industries conducted under this Act is at present (1957) limited to
29 of the 63 industries classified under the Census of Manufacturing
Rules, 1945 and to factories working with power and employing 20 or
more workers. The occupiers of factories are required to submit
returns in the form prescribed. The Inspectors have to ensure that
the factories concerned maintain proper accounts and registers and
make their returns by the due date.
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