§ Mr. REESasked whether the Government of India has taken any action of late in order to enforce the purchase within India of such stores and manufactures as are needed for Government use and are produced within the Indian Empire?
The MASTER of ELIBANKRules for the supply of articles for the public service in India have recently been promulgated, directing that the following classes of stores shall be purchased in India, namely: (a) All articles produced in India in the form of raw material or manufactured in India from materials produced there, provided that the quality is sufficiently good and the price not unfavourable, (b) All articles manufactured in India from imported materials, subject to certain conditions as to quality and price and as to the extent to which the work of manufacture is performed in India.