§ MR. GIBSONasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether any, and, if so, what, steps have been taken by the Indian Government to lessen or remove the grievances of the Indian Medical Service?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe measures taken for reducing the number of unemployed medical officers in India have been efficacious. The Government of India have telegraphed that there are now only two unemployed officers in Bengal, and they have promised to communicate the number still unemployed in Madras and Bombay. It has been decided to place all surgeons of the Indian Service, not holding Executive charge, on precisely the same footing in respect of pay as surgeons of the Army or British Medical Department similarly situated. The lower rate of pay hitherto called unemployed pay will, for the future, be called grade pay, and will only be given when the officer is in receipt of staff salary in addition to his pay.