Handbook of Commercial Information For India

The administrative proposals contained in the report of the Industrial Commission which sat from 1916 to 1918 under the chairmanship of Sir Thomas Holland include the creation of imperial and provincial departments of Industries and of an imperial Industrial Service the latter to be in charge of a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council assisted by a Board of three members entitled the Indian [...] of the Government of India but the tide began to turn with the expansion of irrigation in the Punjab and Sind which made the North Western Railway one of the greatest grain-distributing lines in the world. [...] junior Inspectors and as more than three quarters of the work refers to the coalfields of Bengal and of Bihar and Orissa the headquarters of the Department have been since 1909 at Dhanbad in the district of Manbhum in Bihar and Orissa on the edge of the Jherria coalfields. [...] The law and procedure in India for the protection of inventions and registration of designs closely follows that in the United Kingdom the only difference of importance being that in the absence of any legal provision for the registration of Trade Marks India cannot become a party to the International Convention for the protection of industrial property under which certain rights of priority ar [...] The control of the minor ports in the Bombay Presidency proper vests in the Commissioner of Customs Salt and Excise while the only two ports open to foreign trade in Sind are under the jurisdiction of the Chief Collector of Customs at Karachi.