Report of the Stores Printing and Staionery Sub-Committee of the Retrenchment Advisory Committee (Final) September 1932

We were informed that the possibility of reducing the staff of the Inspectorate had been considered more than once by the department and that on every occasion the department came to the coclusion that any reduction of the strength of the inspection establishment would be fraught with tremendous risk not only from the point of view of the safety of the Indian public but also from the point of [...] These recommendations were accepted by the Government and the department came into existence on the 1st of January 1922 when the Chief pntroller of Stores and the Chief Inspector were appointed and the work of ppreliasing textiles for the Army and other departments of the Government was ;fransferred to the head of the new department. [...] In July 1922 the offices of the Superintendent Local Manufactures and Government Test House and the Metallurgical Inspectorate were brought under the new department the absorbed offices serving as the nucleus of the Inspection branch of the deparment. [...] Further additions to the establishment in order to cope with the increasing work of the department in the matter both of purchase and inspection had to be postponed till the end of the financial year after the necessity for the department had been thoroughly examined by the Inchcape Committee. [...] who were not included in the original scheme of purchase were however ready to utilize the services of the department and the greater portion of the work during the first two years was undertaken on behalf of the Governments of Bombay and the Punjab.