Legislative Assembly Debates Wednesday 6th April 1938 Official Report

The Honourable Member is also referred to the Memorandum by the Financial Commissioner of Railways on the policy of the Railway Board in the matter of stores purchases at pages 196 and 197 of the Proceedings of the Meeting of the Standing Finance Committee for Railways held on 30th and 31st January 1936—Volume XII—No. [...] T. S. Avinashilingam Ohettiar: Will the Honourable Member for Communications state : (a) whether Government have received any definite replies from the Government of Burma with regard to the reduction of the Indo-Burman postal rates; (b) if so what is the nature of the reply; and (c) whether they have been able to work out the financial effect of the increase of the rates? [...] (b) The reply to the first part is in the affirmative and to the second in the negative. [...] Martin and Company owing to the construction of the Howrah-Burdwan Chord line by the East Indian Raiway; (ii) the compensations annually paid to each of the companies metioned in (i) for the losses referred to by them from the very beginning; and (iii) the basis of the calculation of the losses and the compensations mentioned in (i) and (ii) respectively? [...] The annual compensation to the Bengal Provincial Railway Company was fixed on the basis of the anticipated difference between the gross earnings of that railway before and after the opening of the Howrah Burdwan Chord and the amount so fixed Rs.