§ Colonel DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to a memorial addressed to the Secretary of State for India in Council by the covenanted mechanics of the East Indian Railway, in which the memorialists ask that the overseas allowance and free return passages, recommended for gazetted officers of the Indian State Railways in the Report of the Lee Commission, be granted to the non-gazetted officer or covenanted mechanic class as well; and whether this memorial is receiving favourable consideration?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe memorial has not yet been received from the Government of India.