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 Tim  cls are very prolitre, and the supply of labmr exceeds the demand for outt n, most of the people im rieultum, but when .that le come  to face with it. In the agri- find employment season is over, the the problem 'o un- emldoyment. Some lind employment in the towns, mad the artin go Ick to their own crofts, but kl laediess hborers, who have got no knowledge of may mtmosd in omit lind themselves cour search in s very  left to them is to of employment. To the o the vitis, it must mobile, the situation. migrate credit be said, that they are A large plantations of Assam and very number of them go annually to to the mills and firetories of different parts of India. In connection with the labor problem o! Ohotanmr, the kmmgonti system deserves special mention. It is s kind of serfdom prevailing in the twentieth century ia some parts of Ohotsnpur, especially in the North- Wet of. the ]azaribagh district. Kam are a elsas of laborers, who bind  themselves to undertake any kind o! work for the interest on the loan advanced tm them by e creditors. They are ex ._pected to be resdy to s6ieultural work of their masters who feed them or give wases ia kind for those dsys oa which the n the creditor does not require their kamas en work for any one their wages. that are Ttmre are mciat difficties imposed on the Timy "emmet beris about customary The amount the wage give to their class," than half ,, has his prinoipl time of his once a must .seept tor landlords to ol gain received by each km/m is less ot wlt  free latxwer gets. The tasaetieal no oplmrtuuity of paying off  wttie i mat to increase at the so's mmwri, A man who beces