Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces. Friday 27th March 1925. Official Report

The Hon'ble the President : The result of the election by the non. official members of the Council of members for the Finance Committee is as follows :- Mr. [...] In view of the findings of the two commissions the Islington Commission and the Lee Commission it is time that Government should take steps to remove the grievances of the Indian officers and Indianize the services as rapidly not only as they can but as they ought to. [...] I also suspect that all the money that is spent under this head does not necessarily go to the workers as in carrying on the work men of the subordinate service have to supervise the working of the Forest department to keep an attendance of the labourers and to look to every detail. [...] Now in explaining the increase for this year the budget memrandum says that it is due to a considerable expansion of the extraction operations in the Chakrata division additional fuel work in the Raganga division and provision of stock of fuel in Lansdowne for later years." So I gather from this that it is due mostly to a considerable expansion of the extraction operations in the Chakra [...] In the general abstract of the Forest department we find that in the case of the Eastern circle there is an excess of revenue of Rs.