§ MR. CAINE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will state what is the salary attached to the newly created office of Director General of Education for India, and why this appointment has been filled up from the Education Department of this country instead of from among the many competent chiefs of the Education Department of India.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe salary attached to the newly created office of Director of Education is 2,000 rupees a month. The appointment was, at the request of the Government of India, filled up by selection in this country because it appeared to them, as it did also to me, that an officer possessing the special qualifications required for the post was most likely to be secured by the adoption of this course.
In answer to a further Question by Mr. CALVE,
* Mr. LORDG, HAMILTONsaid an officer with special qualifications was required because of the generally unsatisfactory condition of the organisation of education in India at present.