Council of State Debates Wednesday 12th September 1928 Official Report

THE HONOURABLE SRIJUT LOKENATH MUKHERJEE : (a) Has the attention of the Government been drawn to the following extracts in the " Memorial to the Members of the Indian Legislative Assembly in Session" which appeared in the Forward dated the 17th February 1925 " We know that two Bengali ex-internees who served the police during the period of their detention were sent to Europe at the expense of th [...] The Committee expressed its opinion that the time had come to embody in the law the main principles by which the land revenue is determined the methods of valuation the pitch of assessment the periods of revision the graduation of enhancements and the other chief processes which touch the well-being of revenue-payers and they added that the system should be established on a clear statutory ba [...] It behoves the Government of India therefore to realize the gravity of the situation and forthwith direct the Provincial Governments to submit the question of land-tax to the vote of the Legisltures in obedience to the mandate of the Joint Parliamentary Committee and thus absolve themselves from all blame in the matter. [...] It seems to me that it is more or less an expression on his part of the feelings of resentment at the alleged apathy on the part of the Provincial Governments and perhaps an assumed indifference on the part of the Government of India to have the necessary legislation framed in accordance with the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Government of India Bill. [...] This provision was inserted in the Act mainly with the view of " enabling His Majesty's Government to avail themselves of the advice and assistance of the Judges of the Court in framing the more perfect Charter by which the jurisdiction and authority of the Court is to be permanently fixed." Accordingly when the Government of India Act was passed in 1915 the power to alter the functions and pro