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MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS
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DOMESTIC SERVANTS
Generally, those who are not educated, and so cannot seek any other job, take to working as domestic servants. Only families with good incomes, both in urban and rural areas employ the services of domestic servants. But the nature of service performed by domestic servants differs in rural and urban area. Similarly, he services of rural servants differ according to the period of employment, i.e., (1) those employed during the sowing and harvesting period and (2) those employed for a year or more than a year and known as ' attached labour'. Both are paid in cash and kind.
In urban areas people employ domestic servants either for full-time household work or only for washing of clothes and cleaning of utensils. There has been a considerable decrease in the number of persons following this occupation because of the new avenues of employment made available in the mill's or factories where they can earn higher incomes.
As per 1951 Census, the number of persons employed in 'domestic services (but not including services rendered by the members of family households to one another)' was 1,748 (1,188 men and 560 women). The number included private motor drivers, cooks, gardeners and other domestic servants.
As per 1961 Census, the number of persons engaged in the ser-vices rendered to households such as those by domestic servants and cooks was 1,522 of whom 598 were women. According to the Census the total number in urban area was 1,149 and that in rural area was 373.
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