IOR/V/10/328

Annual administration report of the State of Bombay, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1952-53. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1955.

The report comprises an 'INTRODUCTION' (f 2); a table of 'CONTENTS' (f 3); the main body of the report entitled 'Bombay 1952-53' comprising chapters I-XXII (ff 4-70); an 'APPENDIX' listing the Governor and the Council of Ministers, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Bombay Legislative Assembly and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Bombay Legislative Council (f 71); and an 'INDEX' of subjects (ff 72-73) with reference to the original pagination.

The main body of the report 'Bombay 1952-53' is divided into the following chapters, which are further divided into sub-headings:

• 'CHAPTER I. HIGHLIGHTS' (ff 4-7), consisting of: Five Year Plan; Plan for Bombay State; Community Development Projects; Scarcity Relief; Political Activities; Sales Tax; Linguistic States
• 'CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND' (f 8), consisting of: Land Records; City Surveys; Court of Wards
• 'CHAPTER III. LAW AND JUSTICE' (ff 9-16), consisting of: Bombay Legislature; Legislative Assembly; Legislative Council; Rights and Privileges of Members; Elections under the New Constitution; COURSE OF LEGISLATION (including a chronological list of Acts enacted by the Bombay Legislature during the year 1952-53); Administration of Justice; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; PUBLIC TRUSTS AND CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS; REGISTRATION; Joint Stock Companies
• 'CHAPTER IV. POLICE AND CRIME' (ff 16-19), consisting of: Greater Bombay Police; Juvenile Delinquency; Borstal School; Probation and Aftercare; Beggar Problem; Facts and Figures; Institutions; Jails
• 'CHAPTER V. CIVIL SUPPLIES' (ff 20-21), consisting of: Statutory Rationing; Storage of foodgrains; Sugar and Gur; Bombay Milk Scheme; Central Dairy; Toned Milk; Cloth and Yarn; Fodder Supply; Charcoal and Firewood; Coal and Coke; Kerosene and Diesel Oil
• 'CHAPTER VI. AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS' (ff 22-28), consisting of: Season and Crops; Area and Yield of Crops; Agricultural Legislation; Research and Experiments; Reclamation of Alkaline Soils; Crop Breeding; Crop Protection; Seed Supply; Supply and Manure; Horticulture; Parks and Gardens; Agricultural Engineering; Irrigation Facilities; Land Improvement; Food Drive; Agricultural Education; Rural Development; Advances to Cultivators and Agrarian Reforms; Protection of Agricultural Tenants; Consolidation of Holdings; Reclamation of Khar Lands; Relief to Agricultural Debtors; Bombay Money-lenders Act; Scarcity Relief
• 'CHAPTER VII. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE' (ff 29-30), consisting of: Dairy Development; Sheep Breeding; Poultry Development; Veterinary Assistance
• 'CHAPTER VIII. PRICES AND WAGES' (ff 30-33), consisting of: Working Class Cost of Living; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Field or Agricultural Labour; Unskilled or Ordinary Labour; Skilled Labour; Wages in Merged Areas
• 'CHAPTER IX. FORESTS' (ff 34-35), consisting of: Area; Revenue and Expenditure; Exploitation; Forest Industries; Tree Planting; Forest Offences
• 'CHAPTER X. CO-OPERATION AND SARVODAYA' (ff 35-38), consisting of: Agricultural Credit Societies; Multi-purpose Societies; The Bombay State Co-operative Bank; District Central Co-operative Banks; Banking Unions; Long-term Credit Land Mortgage Banks; Marketing Societies; Co-operative Farming; Lift Irrigation Societies; Cattle Breeding and Dairy Societies; Crop Protection and Fencing Societies; Taluka Development Boards; Non-Agricultural Societies; Consumers' Societies; School Boys' Societies; Housing Societies; Transport Societies; Educational Societies; Fisheries Societies; Insurance Societies; Societies of Displaced Persons; Sarvodaya
• 'CHAPTER XI. TRADE INDUSTRIES AND FISHERIES' (ff 38-42), consisting of: Bombay Port Trust; INDUSTRIES, comprising - Assistance to Industries, Technical Training, Research, Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Stores Purchase, Weights and Measures; COTTAGE INDUSTRIES, comprising - Handloom Industry, Hand-Spinning and Khadi, Industrial Co-operatives, District Associations, Industrial Banks, Sales Depots, Research and Experiments; FISHERIES, comprising - Landing and Marketing Facilities, Taraporavala Aquarium, Fish Curing Yards, Assistance to Fishermen, Fisheries Schools, Fresh-water Fisheries, Fish Products
• 'CHAPTER XII. LABOUR AND HOUSING', (ff 42-45), consisting of: [LABOUR], comprising - Work stoppages, Adjudication and Arbitration, Conciliation, Labour Courts, Joint and Works Committees, Decasualisation of Labour, Labour Advisory Board, Trade Unions, Workers' Welfare, Socio-Economic Inquiries, Factory Inspectorate, Boilers and Smoke Nuisance, Workmen's Compensation Act; HOUSING, including - Aid to Co-operative Societies
• 'CHAPTER XIII. STATE TRANSPORT' (ff 45-46), consisting of: Motor Vehicles Department; Traffic Control; GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT SERVICE
• 'CHAPTER XIV. PUBLIC WORKS, IRRIGATION AND ELECTRICITY' (ff 46-48), consisting of: Roads and Buildings; IRRIGATION, comprising - Major and Medium Works and Minor Irrigation Works; Supply of Electricity, Grid Schemes, Water Supply Schemes, Minor Ports
• 'CHAPTER XV. EDUCATION' (ff 48-52), consisting of: Primary Education; Basic Education; Pre-primary Education; Secondary Education; University Education; Training of teachers; Professional and Technical Education; Social Education; Physical Education and National Cadet Corps; Art and Aesthetic Education; Education of 'Defectives' [used in this instance to describe people who are blind, deaf, and do not communicate verbally]; Backward Classes [educationally disadvantaged persons], Displaced Students and Rehabilitation of Young Offenders; Visual Education; Libraries; Museums; Books and Publications; Archives and Ancient Monuments; Bombay District Gazetteers
• 'CHAPTER XVI. BACKWARD CLASSES [used to refer to Dalit people officially designated as Scheduled Castes, Adivasi peoples officially designated as Scheduled Tribes, and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups] (ff 52-54), consisting of: Social Problems; Removal of Untouchability; Protection of Devadasis; Education; Hostel Facilities; Economic Aid; Housing; Emancipation of Adiwasis [Adivasis]; The Dangs and other Scheduled Areas
• 'CHAPTER XVII. REHABILITATION OF DISPLACED PERSONS' (f 54), consisting of: Housing Schemes; Loans; Training and Employment; Settlement on land; Education of Children and Assistance to Displaced Students; Unattached Destitutes
• 'CHAPTER XVIII. PROHIBITION [of alcohol, opium and hemp drugs] AND EXCISE' (ff 54-55), consisting of: State Prohibition Board; Sanskar Kendras [facilities for recreation]; Rehabilitation of Prohibition-affected Persons; Prohibition Offences; Excise Revenue; Benefits of Prohibition
• 'CHAPTER XIX. HEALTH SERVICES' (ff 55-60), consisting of: The Medical Organisation; Vital Statistics; Fight against Epidemics; Maternity and Child Welfare; Combined Medical and Public Health Units; Sirur Health Unit; Public Health Laboratories; Prevention of Food Adulteration; MEDICAL RELIEF, comprising - Hospitals and Dispensaries; Aid to Mission Hospitals; Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine; Leprosy Relief; 'Anti-T.B. Drive'; Combating Typhoid in Bombay; Yellow Fever; Cancer; Hospital for Crippled Children; Blood Transfusion Service; Nutrition; Medical Social Service; Red Cross; Aid to Displaced Persons; Medical Aid for Villagers; Cottage Hospitals; Village Aid Centres; Eye Camps; Health of the Industrial Workers; Mental Hospitals [psychiatric hospitals]; Drug Control; Medical Education; Haffkine Institute; Chemical Analyser
• 'CHAPTER XX. FINANCIAL REVIEW' (ff 60-67), consisting of: Revenue; Expenditure; 'Statement showing receipts and expenditure during the years 1951-52 and 1952-53'; 'Statement showing expenditure during the years 1951-52 and 1952-53'
• 'CHAPTER XXI. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT' (ff 68-70), consisting of: Village Panchayats; Judicial Functions; Water Supply; Municipalities; Municipal Corporations; District Local Boards
• 'CHAPTER XXII. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENTS' (f 70), consisting of: Printing and Stationery; Town Planning and Valuation; Residential Suburban Schemes.