§ 94. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India if he will state what steps have been taken by the Government of India to explain to the people the true nature of the Reforms Act and to counteract the misrepresentations that are being circulated throughout the country?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)The best refutation of certain persistent misrepresentations of this Act must clearly be looked for in its working, but in the meantime the careful consultation of non-official opinion in the framing of rules should dispel misunderstanding. The Government of India and the Local Governments are fully alive to the necessity of putting accurate information within the reach of Indian newspapers and are steadily taking measures to explain the Reforms Act and to show the absurdity of the assertions that the constitutional reforms do not confer now and real powers on the representatives of the people.