§ Mr. KEIR HARDIEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he was in a position to state the names of such political prisoners, if any, as were to be released in accordance with the Coronation Durbar declaration of His Majesty the King?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe case of each prisoner whose crime may be considered to have a political motive has been 2508 considered on its merits with a view to the exercise of as much clemency as a regard for public safety and tranquillity permits. Although I am not in a position to give names, out of 220 prisoners coming in this category clemency, either by release or remission, has been shown to 183.
§ Mr. KEIR HARDIEIs Mr. B. G. Tilak among those to whom clemency is to be extended?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI am not in a position to say.
§ Sir HILDRED CARLILEasked whether the popular education for which the Government of India proposed to set aside fifty lakhs to commemorate the Durbar was synonymous with or would include technical education?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe term includes technical education.