§ MR. BURT (Morpeth)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether a re-settlement of the Central Provinces has been proceeding during the past three years, and whether as regards some villages the rents have been raised some 40, some 50, and some even 100 per cent.; and whether the Secretary of State will obtain and lay on the Table particulars showing, district by district, in the Nagpur, Chattisgarb, Jubbulpore, and Nerbudda Divisions, the rent at which they were assessed under the old settlement and the rates which it is intended the tenants shall pay under the new settlement?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Sir J. GORST,) ChathamThe answer to the first question is, Yes. As to the second question, the Secretary of State will call for particulars of the results of re-settlement so far as they have proceeded. None have yet, so far as the Secretary of State is aware, been made in the Nagpur or Nerbudda Divisions. He will consider whether the Papers, when received, can be laid on the Table.