§ Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering the objections raised by the president of the railway conference and the six principal chambers of commerce in India to the State management of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula Railways, he can state what decision the Government of India have come to on the subject?
§ Mr. RICHARDSIt has been decided that the East India and the Great Indian Peninsula Railways shall on the 1st January and 1at July, 1925, respectively, be placed under State management, at any rate, temporarily. This does not preclude the possibility of the subsequent transfer of the management of one of the railways to an Indian company.