§ MR. CARBUTTasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If a scheme is at the present time under consideration in India to form a branch of the Public Works Department in India, to be called the "Consulting Engineers'" branch, and which is to consist of twenty officers, all of them to be Royal Engineers, to the exclusion of all Civil Engineers; and, if he approves of the continued exclusion of Civil Engineers from all the superior administrative posts in the Public Works Department in India?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSSir, I am not aware that any such scheme as that described is under the consideration of the Government of India. My hon. Friend is mistaken in supposing that Civil Engineers are excluded from all the superior administrative posts in the Public Works Department in India.