Legislative Assembly Debates. Friday 10th March 1933. Official Report

the matter begins with the recommendation of the Indian Taxation Enquiry Commitee (1924-1925) which in paragraph 179 of their report recorded certain opinions of the lines on which an enquiry might be made with a view to removing the handicaps on the Indian manufature of salt in the matter of supply of salt to Bengal. [...] All the Governments are opposed to this Act and the Bihar Government has sent a deputation to the Government of India and the whole of my constituency shares the view of the Bihar Government in this matter that this taxation affects Bihar very much and the effect of this Act is that the price of salt has gone very high; and though a portion of that tax goes to the Bihar Goverment it does not [...] I had the privilege of interpellating here with regard to the position of Mussalmans in that particular office and in I he office of the Post Master and Post Master General at Calcutta and also in the other offices under the same roof and the reply has been far from satisfactory. [...] I think it is within the recollection of Members of this House that for several years past it has been the avowed policy of the Government to extend the postal operations in the rural areas and from time to time in recent years statistics have been placed before this House and they have also been included in the annual reports showing the very large number of new offices opened experimentally [...] As to that the figures relating to various offices which have frequently been given in replies to questions asked in the Assembly show I think that the existing representation of the minority communities in general and of the Muslim community in particular is generally somewhat on the low side.