1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PACHBADRA.
3 Detail of sales of duty-
4 paid salt,
5 Decrease in through-traffic
6 and ordinary, and in-
7 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
8 in the tract running dry earlier than usual; (8) Rs. 4,103,
9 Refunds, the whole of which except Rs. 5 was on account of half
10 duty on salt sold for consumption in Bikanir, refunded under the
11 salt agreement to the Bikawir Darbar. Decreases (1) Rs. 884,
12 travelling’ allowance and conveyance of tents and records,
13 owing to fewer transfers and to the Assistant Commisioner not
14 having gone last year on tour into the Luni tract ; (2) Rs. 57,
15 repairs of tents, only Rs. 6 having been expended in 1894-95 ;
16 (8) Rs. 38, hot weather charges; (4) Rs. 53 in service postage
17 service telegram and country stationery combined ; (5) Rs 4,244
18 in through-traffic charges, the quantity of through-traffic salt
19 sent away being greatly less than in 1893-94; (6) Rs. 1,258, |
20 petty construction and repairs. The buildings received great
21 damage in 1893-94 from the heavy rainfall and the cost of
22 repairs was therefore unusually heavy in that year.
23 53. The following statement furnishes details of the sales
24 of duty-paid salt at Pachbadra for the past four years,—Par-
25 ticulars have already briefly been given of the issue of salt free
26 of duty and free of price and duty in the fifth paragraph of this
27 report :—
28 Rail-borne.
29 or Through | Ordinary | Road traffic. | Total.
30 traffic. trade, - E
31 Mas. Mas, Mds, Mds.
32 1891-92 re aw 3,23,170 15,824 1,26,085 2,65,079
33 1892-93 ves ae - 1,75,683 9,510 1,44,070 3,29,263
34 1893-94, 8,30,068 61,564 1,67,636 10,59,268
35 1894-95 5,22,292 6,268 1,68,758 6,97,318
36 A decrease has taken place in the through-traffic trade of
37 creas in Fanjarah trade. the year as compared with 1893-94 of maunds 3,07,776 (maunds
38 Distribution of through-
39 traffic salt.
40 8,30,068 in 1893-94, and maunds, 5,22,292 in 1894-95) caused
41 of course by the lowering from 8 annas to 4 annas of the price
42 of Sambhar salt in June 1894 and the revival thereupon of the
43 trade in that salt. But as compared with previous years, ever
44 since the through-traffic system;was introduced at Pachbadra,
45 there is still'a marked increase in that description of trade in
46 the year under review. It is feared that the transactions in the
47 current year (1895-96) will approximate nearer to those of the
48 years before 1893-94, as Pachbadra salt is found to be fast reced-
49 ' ing now from the markets of the North-Western Provinces and
50 Oudh. The ordinary rail-borne tradein Pachbadra salt dwind-
51 led from maunds 61,564 in 1893-94 to maunds 6,268 in 1894-95,
52 during which year indeed it was smaller than it has ever been
53 before. This cireumstance speaks sufficiently for the popula-*
54 rity of the through-traffic system, which indeed should be the
55 ‘case, as the departmental agency has more’ means at command
56 at this backward place and transacts business more promptly
57 than traders’ agents could do, and more cheaply besides. The
58 Banjarah-carried trade was within 1,122 maunds of the same
59 amount as in the preceding year, viz., maunds 1,67,636 in 1893-
60 94 and maunds 1,68,758 in the year just ended.
61 54. The abstract contained in this paragraph exhibits the
62 quantities of Pachbadra salt which were distributed over the
63 ( 42 )