§ SIR JOHN LENG (Dundee)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India what are the amounts, in tens of rupees, of capital expenditure on railways, water storage, and irrigation allocated for these purposes respectively in the financial 258 statement for the year ending 31st March; has sanction been given to the construction of a broad-gauge line to complete through communication between Bombay and Karachi, and at what point from or near Ahmedabad is such railway to start on the route through the Rann of Kutch and the districts of Thur-parkar; and what will be the length of such new line and the total cost in tens of rupees.
§ LORD G. HAMILTON(1) Assuming the question to relate to the year ending 31st March, 1902, the answer is: for railways, 6,506,400 tens of rupees; water, storage and irrigation (not shown separately), 1,128,000 tens of rupees. (2) A broad-gauge line has been projected from Viramgam, on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, through the Rann of Kutch to Hydera bad, in Sind, but its construction has not yet been sanctioned. (3) The length of the line would be 360 miles, and the cost has been estimated at 3,240,000 tens of rupees.