§ 30. Mr. BENNETTasked the Secretary of State for India whether, considering that the present scale of pensions for members of the uncovenanted services of India was fixed so long ago as in 1855, in the light of the cost of living and rate of exchange at that time; that the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India recommended in 1912 that the present maximum pension for officers with more than twenty-five years' service should be increased from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 6,000, with special pensions for certain high appointments; that the Viceroy and the Secretary of State, in their 853 Report on Constitutional Reforms in India, have confirmed this recommendation, and that much hardship is known to exist in consequence of the inadequacy of the present scale of pensions to meet the enhanced cost of living, he will take an early opportunity of redressing this acknowledged grievance?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)The Secretary of State expects to have the definite proposals of the Government of India on the subject before him very shortly, and will then deal with it without loss of time.