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Legislative Assembly Debates. Thursday 14th September 1922. Official Report

1922

H. S. Gour : May I also in this connection draw the attention of the House to the fact that some three months back I wrote to the Secretary of the Legislative Department to give me a copy of the report of the Select Committee and the draft of the changes made in the Codes of Criminal Procedure so that I may be able to study them at my leisure and come prpared at the commencement of the Legislat [...] The result was that instead of the Government of India being the plaster of the purse and allotting sums to the Provinces according to their own sweet will from surplus in hand after providing for all their requirements from all the Indian as well as the Provincial revenues the Provinces became the owners of the revenues and would first think of their own wants and only out of the surplus if [...] The Punjab paid the contribution fixed by the Meston Committee but not without protest and in the meeting of the Punjab Legislative Council held on the 9th and 10th January 1922 it strongly protested against the heavy burden of contribution to the Central Government and passed a Resolution to the effect that The Finance Committee of the Council be instructed to examine the question of the financi [...] This gave the Collector zest in putting on the ' revenues on the land so that land revenue rose by leaps and bounds to the benefit of the revenues of the Madras Government and the Central Government but to the great burden of the poor taxpayer in the Madras districts. [...] They run as follows : Realising ae they do the extent to which the success of the Reforms Scheme will depend upon a satisfactory solution of the difficult question of the allocation of revenues to the Provincial Governments and to the Central Government respectively the Committee have given most anxious consideration to the proposals made to this end in the Report of the Financial Relations Com
government politics public policy
Pages
68
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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