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UPSC CSE Prelims 2017 · GS Paper I · Question 15 · British administration, land revenue & economy

1929 का व्यापार विवाद अधिनियम (ट्रेड डिस्प्यूट्स ऐक्ट) निम्नलिखित में से किसका उपबंध करता है ?

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2017, General Studies Paper I, Question 15 — British administration, land revenue & economy.

1929 का व्यापार विवाद अधिनियम (ट्रेड डिस्प्यूट्स ऐक्ट) निम्नलिखित में से किसका उपबंध करता है ?

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The Trade Disputes Act of 1929 provided for

(a) the participation of workers in the management of industries. · (b) arbitrary powers to the management to quell industrial disputes. · (c) an intervention by the British Court in the event of a trade dispute. · (d) a system of tribunals and a ban on strikes.

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) अधिकरणों (ट्रिब्यूनल्स) की प्रणाली तथा हड़तालों पर रोक

Passed amid the labour unrest of the late 1920s, the Trade Disputes Act, 1929 let the government refer an industrial dispute to a Court of Inquiry or a Board of Conciliation, and it put restraints on strikes and lock-outs in public utility services. Tribunals plus curbs on strikes is option (d).

  • ✓ (d) The Act let the government set up Courts of Inquiry and Boards of Conciliation to investigate and settle disputes, and it restrained strikes and lock-outs, above all in public utility services.
  • ✗ (a) The Act gave workers no role in management. Even Works Committees of employer and worker representatives came only with the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, which replaced the 1929 Act.
  • ✗ (c) Disputes went to bodies the government itself appointed, not to a British court; the 1946 review noted that their findings were not even binding on the parties.

Remember · Trade Disputes Act, 1929: Courts of Inquiry and Boards of Conciliation + restraints on strikes in public utility services; replaced by the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Sources

  • Labour Department, Government of NCT of Delhi: The Industrial Disputes Act (Introduction) ↗ “Experience of the working of the Trade Disputes Act, 1929, has revealed that its main defect is that while restraints have been imposed on the rights of strike and lock-out in public utility services … the settlement of an industrial dispute, either by reference to a Board of Conciliation or to a Court of Inquiry, conclusive and binding on the parties to the dispute.”

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·

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