§ Mr. REESasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has any official information showing that land in irrigation colonies in the Punjab in one or more cases fetched £3,000 an acre?
§ The UNDERSECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)The instance in which the exceptional price of £3,000 the acre was obtained from market sites in a proposed new town in the Chenab Colony is mentioned in the Report on the Punjab Irrigation Colonies for 1908–9. Particulars of other land sales are given in the Report, but in none of them was a similar price reached. The Secretary of State has caused a copy of the Report to be placed in the Library of this House.
§ Mr. REESWill the Secretary of State consider the advisability of giving publicity to this illustration of the way in which British administration is impoverishing British India?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe hon. Member will be able to draw his own conclusions from the Report in the Library.