MR. GUYDAWNAYasked the Under Secretary of. State for India, Whether any steps have yet been taken, or are about to betaken, to remove the disadvantages with regard to promotion, under which, by recent Regulations, Subalterns in the Madras Staff Corps are at present placed, as compared with Subalterns in Her Majesty's Service?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe Madras Staff Corps Subalterns are promoted under the same Rules as the Subalterns of the other Staff Corps. I am not aware of any recent issue of Regulations which affect the actual or relative position of these officers in regard to promotion. It is uncertain what period can be assumed to be the normal rate of promotion of officers of the Line; but the position of the Staff Corps Subalterns is practically identical with that of the Subalterns of Royal Engineers—the only body of officers in Her Majesty's Service which, like the Staff Corps, is promoted after fixed service in the grades of Subaltern and Captain.