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MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS |
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BOARDING AND LODGING.
There were 21 residential-cum-boarding houses
in the city at the time of survey, 15 of which were located in C
ward, four in E ward and one each in B and D wards. The total
employment in all these establishments was 113 persons most of whom
were paid employees. Only seven members of owners' families were
engaged in this occupation, out of them three were males, one was a
female and the remaining two children. Three establishments were
surveyed in the sample. They were started between 1948 and 1954.
Lodging and boarding was the principal occupation of the owners of
the two establishments. The third owner had a cinema theatre and
lodging and boarding was his subsidiary occupation. Two
establishments were situated in rented premises. The rent of each
was Rs. 60 and Rs. 75. Third was situated in owned premises, the
value of which was about Rs. one lakh. The initial capital required
for starting their establishments was raised by two owners from own
resources and the third owner borrowed a part of capital from a
local bank. It was found that he had not wholly repaid the debt. The
biggest establishment in the sample had invested Rs. 115,000 in this
occupation and the other two Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 2,500 respectively.
The equipment used was all kinds of utensils for
cooking and serving dishes, furniture like tables, chairs, cots,
mirrors, tea-trays, etc. One establishment had a radio set also. The
biggest establishment in the sample had equipment worth Rs. 9,000
and the remaining two had equipment worth Rs. 2,000 each.
The total employment in all the three units in the
sample was 30 persons out of whom eight were the members of owners
families. One establishment had a female servant. All the employees
were paid wages as well as given two meals a day. A person looking
after the management of the establishments was paid Rs. 45 per
month, plus two meals. A cook in one of the establishments
was paid Rs. 40 per month, plus two meals a day. in another
Rs. 55 with two meals. Waiters were paid Rs. 25 and Rs. 35
respectively in the two establishments. The total wage bill of the
three establishments was Rs. 665 per month, plus the
expenditure on meals.
Other items of expenditure were rent, water and
electric charges, municipal licence fee and municipal tax and radio
licence fee. The total expenditure on all these items per
establishment was Rs. 95, Rs, 110 and Rs, 155 per month
respectively.
Raw materials required were food grains, milk,
vegetables, tea and other requirements for cooking. One
establishment was both vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian. It
consumed mutton and fish along with above materials. All these
materials were purchased from local market. The biggest
establishment spent about Rs. 1,000 per month on this item, others
about Rs. 200 and Rs. 450 respectively. The cost of maintenance of
an establishment depended mostly upon the current prices of food
grains, fuel, other materials like milk, etc. The total cost of
maintenance of the establishments were Rs. 750, Rs. 960 and Rs.
1,300 per month respectively.
These establishments provided both lodging as well
as boarding facilities. The net income earned by the biggest was
about Rs. 1,500 per month and by others Rs. 300 and Rs. 200
respectively. This occupation was more or less profitable to one
establishment and in the other two the margin of profit was not very
high.
These establishments catered the needs of all
classes of people within or outside the district. The demand for
lodging in these establishments was more or less constant throughout
the year.
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