Committee on Division of Functions

9. Our duty as stated in clause II of the reference is to advise as to the functions of the provincial Governments and as to the control to be retained by the Government of India in relation to provincial subjects in order to secure the discharge of their own responsibilities.' For the purpose of defining the relations between the central and provincial Governments as we are thus required tO d [...] Circumstances and the experience gained in the working of the existing local Governments have largely decided in practice what subjects must fall in the provincial class; but the general subordination of local Governments to the Government of India under the terms of the Government of India Act and centralization in finance have in the past tended to obscure the actual dividing line between Al [...] If it is decided to give affect to the recommendations contained in the report of the Commission legislation will be require(i) as to the constitution and functions of the University of Calcutta (ii) as to the control of secondary education in Bengal and the establisment of a Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (iii) as to the establishment constitution and functions_of the new [...] If therefore the question arose as to the transfer in any province of the police to the charge of Ministers the question of the definition of the powers of the central Government and of the obligation of the province in relation to Police would assume quite a different aspect from that which it presents as long as the general control of the Government of India is retained unhampered by any restri [...] (4) The following provisions shall apply to any Bill reserved for the consideration of the Governor-General under the preceding paragraphs :— (i) The Governor may at any time within six months of the date of the reservation of the Bill with the consent of the GovernoGeneral but not otherwise return the Bill for further consderation by the Council with a recommendation that the Coucil