AGRICULTURAL LABOUR-Getting Poorer

EXCEPT for a brief press report based on an official hand-out, an important publication brought out by the Labour Bureau, Union Ministry of Labour, on the economic conditions of rural lab- our households has gone largely unnoticed. The publication presents a summary of what it calls "the huge mass of data" collected through the Rural Labour Enquiry, 1974-75. This is the fourth in the series; the earlier ones were the two Agricultural Labour Enquires of 1950-51 and 1956-57 and the Rural Labour Enquiry of 1963-65 conducted in two parts.