Sir SEYMOUR KINGasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that when the Education Department of India was reorganised in 1896 the Secretary of State decided that directors of public instruction under local Governments and Administrations who had served three years in that capacity, and whose service was approved, should be eligible for a pension of Rs.6,000, and that, therefore, Mr. E. Giles, C.I.E., in being allotted a pension of Rs.6,000 per annum only received what he was practically entitled to, and no extra reward whatever for his specially meritorious services; whether any pension in excess of the amount permissible under the regulations has ever been sanctioned in terms of Article 924 of the Civil Service Regulations; and, if so, to whom?
The MASTER of ELIBANKIn a Resolution of the Government of India dated 23rd July, 1896, regarding the reorganisa-1386W tion of the educational service in India, it was laid down that directors of public instruction will be eligible for an additional pension of Rs.1,000 a year, making Bs.6,000 in all, provided that they have rendered not less than three years of effective service in the appointment, and provided also that in each case during such service they have shown such special energy and efficiency as may be considered deserving of the concession. The pension of Bs.6,000 granted to Mr. Giles is, therefore, not what he was practically entitled to, but includes an additional pension of Rs.1,000 a year, which is admissible only to officers of special merit. Since 1877 only one pension exceeding Rs.6,000 a year has been granted to a civil officer not being a member of the Indian Civil Service or of the class of officers to whom Article 642 of the Civil Service Regulations is applicable. The case was that of Mr. B. Gay, formerly Comptroller and Auditor-General, to whom a pension of Rs.7,000 a year was specially granted in 1892.