Handbook of Commercial Information for India

The only new features which have been intrduced are the addition of a bibliography the indication in the map of India of the names of some of the ports which have lately come into prominence and a somewhat greater elaboration of the details in certain chapters tif the Handbook e.g. [...] Some of the other important lines constructed by or at the cost of Indian States during the last decade are the Hanumangarh-Sadulpui Chord of the Bikaner State Railway the Shimoga-Arasalu-Anantapuram section of the Mysore State Railway the Sanidari-Bhnintal section of the Jodhpur Railway the Bidar-Purli section of H. E. H. the Nizam's State Railway the Fort. [...] functions include the construction of new lines by State agency the approval of rates for passengers and goods the settlement of train services and through traffic arrangements the control and promotion of the staffs of State railways and general supervision of the expendture and working of lines in which the Government of India is principally interested. [...] It shall be the duty of the Railway Tribunal to make orders varying or discharging a direction or order of the Railway Federal Authority orders for the payment of compensation or damages and of costs and orders for the production of documents and the attendance of witnesses as the circumstances of the case may require. [...] The Department is through the medium of. the Indian Trade -Commissioners in London Hamburg and Milan in close touch with the trade developments of interest to India in the United Kingdom and on the Continent and it arranges for the collection of represetative samples of Indian produce and manufactures for display at the various fairs and exhibitions in the United Kingdom and on the Contin