§ 3. Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether it is proposed to alter the Regulations which require a member of the Indian Medical Service to have had twelve years' service before attaining his majority, bearing in mind that this period for combatant officers in the Indian Army has been reduced from eighteen to fifteen years, and, therefore, they attain their majority at a younger age than members in the Indian Medical Service who enter the Service later in life owing to their long and technical training?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)Accelerated promotion in the Indian Army during the War was granted in consideration of the general acceleration of promotion in the combatant branches of the British Army. No similar ground exists for a general acceleration of promotion to major in the Indian Medical Service. As a special measure the Secretary of State for 2123 India in December last authorised the antedating of the promotion of certain captains of the Indian Medical Service with a view of securing for them a relative equality in seniority with that of corresponding officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps whose promotion had been specially accelerated by war conditions.