§ MR. BAXTERasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether any decision has been come to on the proposal of the Famine Commission regarding the establishment of an Agricultural Department, more particularly with reference to the improvement of the agriculture of India; and, whether, as advised by that Commission, an officer has been appointed to initiate the special department which should deal with Famine Administration, and consider and mature schemes of
Emigration from those parts of India where the condition of the agricultural labourer has been brought to the lowest verge compatible with continued existence,to other localities the natural resources of which are said to need nothing but labour to convert them into sources of plenty?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONSir, the Question to which my right hon. Friend refers is the subject of a Correspondence between the Government of India and the India Office. That Correspondence is not yet complete. Perhaps my right hon. Friend will ask the Question at a later period of the Session, when I hope to be able to give him a fuller answer.