Report of the Pay Commission - Bengal Presidency 1921

and a Chemical Examiner to the Government tendents of Police intelligence Branch (Criminal Investigation Department) and Special Branch 40-43 under the Conuni ssioner of Police 44 establishments of the Director of Surveys 45-47 Office of the Surgeon-General 48 Office of the Inspector-General of Prisons. 49 -Office of the Inspector-General of Registration 50 Office of the Director of Public Health [...] Questions of organisation of offices or of recruitment were not referred to the Committee nor did the quetion of the improvement of the conditions of any of the services over pre-war conditions come within the scope of the reference. [...] The problem of evolving a scheme for a permanent revision of pay is distinct from that of the determiation of the position of the present incumbents in the new scheme. [...] (5) Alipur Duars and Bhalka.-40 per cent."The allowance in the Darjeeling district has been given on account of the high cost of living that in Siliguri on account of the unhealthiness of the locality that in the Chittagong Hill Tracts for this reason as well as on account of the high cost of living and their isolated situation and that in the Duars on account of the unhealthiness of the clima [...] In an office where provision has to be made for most of the clerks spending their career on the selected timscale we consider that a clerk should be able to reach the maxmum at the commencement of his-twenty-fifth year of service folloWing in this respect the opinion of the Postal Committee and that given by some of the representatives of the clerks.