§ 13. Sir J. D. REESasked whether the Secretary of State is aware of the block in promotion existing in the Indian police and of the fact that some of the senior officers have been serving in the same grade for eight years; whether the Secretary of State is aware that while officers in the Public Works and Forests Departments automatically draw Rs.1,250 permensem, after twenty years' service 868 (under the annual incremental system granted to these Departments), police officers of thirty years' service are drawing only Rs.1,000 per mensem, and police officers of twenty-five years' service are drawing only Rs. 900 per mensem, and have been in these grades since April, 1906; whether the Secretary of State, in view of the hardship of police officers serving eight years and longer in the same grade, will introduce the annual incremental system which is in force in the Public Works and Forests Department, and thus remove the block in promotion which now exists in the police force in India; and whether he is aware that police officers from all provinces in India memorialised both the Secretary of State and the Viceroy on this subject five years ago and that feeling exists in the Departments on this subject?
§ Mr. C. ROBERTSI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on the 23rd June. Pending the Report of the Royal Commission the Secretary of State is not prepared to consider the adoption of the change suggested in the conditions of service of the police.
§ Sir J. D. REESWill the Secretary of State consider it after he receives the Report?
§ Mr. C. ROBERTSOf course he will receive the recommendations that will be made.
§ Sir J. D. REESWill he consider the matter if it is not a recommendation?