Official Report Bengal Legislative Council Debates Tuesday 8th February 1938

NARENDRA CHANDRA DATTA: Will the Hon'ble Minister in charge of the Finance Department be pleased to state the reasons which led the Government to increase the travelling and halting allowances of the Ministers without consulting the Legislature? [...] HAMIDUL HUQ CHOWDHURY: (a) Will the Hon'ble Minister in charge of the Communications and Works Department be pleased to state whether there has been any investigation made as to the effect of the railway bridge built at Ashuganj on the system of drainage served by the river Meghna ? (b) If so will the Hon'ble Minister be pleased to state who made the investigation and what is the nature and the r [...] Khan Bahadur MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM: (a) Is the Hon'ble Minister in charge of the Revenue Department aware that the present manager of the Bogra district khas mahal is taking recourse to the certificate procedure and realising rents by the sale of agricultural crops and of the cattle of the tenants ? (b) If the answer to (a) be in the affirmative is the Hon'ble Miniter contemplating to pass necessar [...] PRESIDENT: The Chair has on more than one occasion drawn the attention of the Hon'ble Ministers that if any of the questions in their opinion offends against any Rules and Standing Orders they are welcome to represent their views to the Chair before the question comes up in the House but they are not to usurp the function of the Chair and to state that the case is sub judice in reply to que [...] MUKUNDA BEHARY MULLICK: (a) and (b) The hon'ble member is referred' to the record of proceedings in the Legislative Council on 3rd December 1936 wherein it is stated that the purpose of the subsidy is two-fold—to enable the Provincial Bank to make good the losses incurred over the failure of the Jute Sale and Supply Societies and to enable the Provincial Bank to make some remissions to societies