Legislative Assembly Debates. Wednesday 7th September 1922. Official Report

*Rai Bahadur S. P. Bajpai (a) Will the Government be pleased to state the ratio of officers to the ministerial establishments in the different departments of the Government of India ? (b) Do the Government propose to maintain the present ratio of officers to the ministerial staff in effecting retrenchment in the different departments of the Government of India ? The Honourable Sir William Vincent [...] *Rai Bahadur S. P. Bajpai (a) Will the Government be pleased to state if it is a fact that the ministerial staff of the Government of India has been prohibited to approach the members of the Indian Legislature with their grievances (b) If so will the Government be pleased to lay on the table a copy of the orders I The Honourable Sir William Vincent (a) and (b). [...] Apart from the fact that the questions involved are rarely if ever of public importance the practice usually entails the disclosure to non-official persons of information which has been obtained from official sources or has come into the possession of the member of the Secretariat in the course of his official duties and any such disclosure is a breach of rule 17 of the Government Servants' Con [...] (a) The question of the transfer of the Dacca section of the Eastern Bengal Railway to the Assam-Bengal Railway for working has been under the consideration of the Government of India forikeveral years and a definite decision has not been arrived at. [...] K. C. Neogy Will Government be pleased to publish a return showing (a) the names of printing presses with their location whose securities have been returned (specifying the amount of securities in each case) since the repeal of the Press Act of 1910 (b) the number of printing presses and newspapers started in the different provinces since the repeal of the Press Act of 1910 and (c) the names of