large scale industries
INDUSTRIES LARGE-SCALE AND SMALL-SCALE
The following pages describe the industrial life and activity of the district. The chapter is divided into three sections: (1) Large-Scale Industries, (2) Small-Scale Industries and (3) Labour Organization. It is, however, to be noted that the statistics given in the section on large-scale industries which include employment and such other aspects as capital investment, production etc. are included, are not in respect of the industry as a whole but pertain to such major units as are registered under the Factories Act, 1948. They therefore do not embrace small establishments. In the sections on small-scale industries and labour organization, general description of each village industry and of trade union movement in the district is given.
I-LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIES.
COTTON TEXTILES.
Cotton Textiles.-Cotton has been an important fibre crop of Kolhapur since the beginning the present century. Round about 1910-15 about 30,000 acres of land were under cotton cultivation. With a view to exploit the available resources, the late Maharaja Shahu Chhatrapati of Kolhapur, started a cotton textile mill at Kolhapur. It was owned by the Kolhapur Government. Originally it had only a spinning section and weaving department was added to it in 1928. Till 1935, it was managed by Messrs. James Finlay and Co. who acted as the agents of the Kolhapur Government. With the merger of the Kolhapur in Bombay State in 1949, the unit was taken over by the Government of Bombay. It is the only large scale textile unit working in the district. It had 319 looms, 15,998' spindles in 1947-48. It produced about 2.8 million lbs. of yarn and manufactured about 6.4 yards of cloth of various kinds viz. dhoti, pugree-cloth, plain-khadi, heavy long-cloth, and dasoti-cloth in the same year.
The total capital investment in the factory was Rs. 41,38,635, of which Rs. 23,87,280 were invested in buildings' and machinery and Rs. 17,51,355 as working capital at the
The following pages describe the industrial life and activity of the district. The chapter is divided into three sections: (1) Large-Scale Industries, (2) Small-Scale Industries and (3) Labour Organization. It is, however, to be noted that the statistics given in the section on large-scale industries which include employment and such other aspects as capital investment, production etc. are included, are not in respect of the industry as a whole but pertain to such major units as are registered under the Factories Act, 1948. They therefore do not embrace small establishments. In the sections on small-scale industries and labour organization, general description of each village industry and of trade union movement in the district is given.
I-LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIES.
COTTON TEXTILES.
Cotton Textiles.-Cotton has been an important fibre crop of Kolhapur since the beginning the present century. Round about 1910-15 about 30,000 acres of land were under cotton cultivation. With a view to exploit the available resources, the late Maharaja Shahu Chhatrapati of Kolhapur, started a cotton textile mill at Kolhapur. It was owned by the Kolhapur Government. Originally it had only a spinning section and weaving department was added to it in 1928. Till 1935, it was managed by Messrs. James Finlay and Co. who acted as the agents of the Kolhapur Government. With the merger of the Kolhapur in Bombay State in 1949, the unit was taken over by the Government of Bombay. It is the only large scale textile unit working in the district. It had 319 looms, 15,998' spindles in 1947-48. It produced about 2.8 million lbs. of yarn and manufactured about 6.4 yards of cloth of various kinds viz. dhoti, pugree-cloth, plain-khadi, heavy long-cloth, and dasoti-cloth in the same year.
The total capital investment in the factory was Rs. 41,38,635, of which Rs. 23,87,280 were invested in buildings' and machinery and Rs. 17,51,355 as working capital at the