§ Captain CLIVEasked the Undersecretary of State for India if he can now give any information concerning the discontent among the military officers of the Military Accounts Department in India on account of their salaries and prospects and the proposals of the Government of India for remedying them?
§ Mr. MONTAGUOut of forty-three military officers belonging to the Military Accounts Department in India fourteen have presented memorials to the Government of India regarding their pay and prospects of departmental advancement. Three of these memorialists hold the departmental grade of military accountant, the remaining eleven being assistant military accountants. After a careful consideration of these memorials the Government of India have arrived at the conclusion that the military accountants have no real grounds for discontent, either as regards their salaries or their prospects, but that assistant military accountants are.suffering from an exceptionally slow rate of promotion. The Government of India are considering how this can best be relieved, but have not yet framed a definite scheme.