§ 6. Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURYasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will take steps to see that all officers of the Indian Political Department receive equal pay for equal service: whether he is aware that officers taken from the Indian Army in the Indian Political Department receive lower pay than those taken from the Indian Civil Service, although they do exactly the same work; and whether, seeing that in the course of 23 years' service the difference amounts to Rs.36,600, he will do away with this anomaly?
§ Mr. RICHARDSThis matter is at present under consideration in India, and I understand that the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India proposed to include it in the scope of their inquiry. The Secretary of State is communicating with the Government of India on the subject.