§ 7. Sir ARTHUR FELLasked the Secretary of State for India if the pay of the chaplains in the Indian Amry is now quite insufficient to enable married chaplains in many parts of India to provide themselves and their families with the common necessaries and comforts of existence in the trying climate which many of them have to endure?
§ Mr. MONTAGUAn improved scale of pay for the chaplains on the Indian ecclesiastical establishments was sanctioned by me in September last to take retrospective effect from the 1st December, 1019. The minimum pay is now Rs. 600 a month and the maximum Rs. 1,300 a month, as compared with the previous limits of Rs. 480 and Rs. 1,000 a month, respectively. The Government of India are making the new rates widely known by a public announcement.