Account of the Growth of Public Expenditure in India During the Ten Years 1901-02 to 1910-11

tration " the period under review saw the pag * ( inclusion* of Berar in the Central Prvinces and the division of the old province of Bengal into two administrations ; also the reform and expansion of the Legislative Councils and the creation of the two new Imperial departments of Commerce and Industry and Eduction in addition to a growing volume of administrative work all over the country [...] But the increase in world prices has as is known not left India unaffected ; and the growth of the population the extension of comunications the increase in the area under cultivation the spread of education and other causes have added to the complexity of the administration and have involved a general increase in the establishments required to carry on the work of the Indian administrati [...] The expansion under the former head represented the cost of administration of the Nasirabad settlement in Baluchistan acquired from the Khan of Kalat and of a revision of the subdivisional establishments in the same province while that under the latter resulted from an extension of the settlement operations in Ajmer Coorg and Baluchistan. [...] (c) Under " Land Records and Agriculture" the growth of.5 increases to.7 if allowance is made for the transfer of the cost of printing Patwari forms to the head " 30—Stationery and Printing with effect from 1907-08 ; the principal items were :— (i) Revision of the Kanungo establishment during the latter half of the period under review.5 (it) Reorganization of the establishment of the Direct [...] Gradual expansion of the programme of siipplementary surveys (1.0 ; reoreanizatibn of the superior establishment of the department in 1908 -09 (1.0; ; transfer of the cost of the Circle establishments under the Village Headmen scheme from Charges of district administration." in 190e0A and the subsequent extension of this scheme (3.6) ; transfer of the cost of the Patta Survey establishment fro