§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if the Mining Board, which the Government of India proposes to form under section 9 of the Indian Mines Act of 1901, has yet been constituted if so, can he state the names of the five members; and can he lay any correspondence or other information concerning the Board upon the Table of the House.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONThe Government of India is not empowered by the Mines Act of 1901 to create a Mining Board, though under section 9 the Provincial Governments may, if they think fit, constitute such Boards within their respective territories. I have not yet learnt that a Mining Board has actually been formed in any province, but in Bengal the matter has for some time past been under consideration by the local Government. There has been no correspondence on the subject.