1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1899-1900.
2 submitted to give effect to the orders, which were
3 issued in 1886 in accordance with a recommendation
4 of the Finance Committee, for the revision of the pay
5 . and grading of the Superintendents and Assistant
6 Superintendents in the Department.
7 (2) Later, in my Jetter No. 56, dated the 5th January 1900,
8 some important proposals were submitted for a
9 reduction in the number of Superintendents, Assist-
10 ant Superintendents and Inspectors employed, and
11 for an increase to the pay of the Deputy Commissioner
12 and Assistant Commissioners and of the large
13 body of Inspectors in the Department, and for the
14 grant of a local allowance to the Superintendent
15 doing the work of Personal Assistant. The Govern-
16 ment of India agreed to increase the rates of pay
17 and improve the grading of the Inspectors, and to
18 sanction the lécal allowance proposed for the Per-
19 sonal Assistant, and sanctioned also an improvement
20 in the position of the Assistant Commissioners, but
21 considered that sufficient cause had not been shown
22 for increasing the pay of the Deputy Commissioner.
23 The proposals thus modified were finally sanctioned
24 by the Secretary of State in his Despatch No. 73,
25 dated the 10th of May 1900, with effect from the 1st
26 April 1901.
27 The changes which have been effected are: (a) the creation
28 of an Assistant Commissionership on Rs. 1,000 amonth in place
29 of one such appointment on Rs. 500—50—800; (6) a revision
30 of the pay of other Assistant Commissioners under which they
31 will rise from Rs. 500 to Rs. 800 a month by annual inere-
32 ments of Rs. 30 instead of by annual increments of Rs. 50,.
33 after a period of five years without increment on the initial pay
34 of Rs. 500; (c) the reduction of the appointments of two Super-
35 intendents, 4th grade, one Assistant Superintendent, 1st grade,
36 and two Assistant Superintendents, 2nd grade; (d) an increase
37 in the rates of pay of the different grades of Inspectors from
38 Ra. 30 rising to Rs. 70, to Rs. 40 rising to Rs. 100, and an
39 improvement inthe grading, accompanied with a reduction
40 in their number from 104 to 91; (f) the grant of a local
41 allowance of Rs. 50 a month to the Superintendent acting as
42 Personal Assistant; and (g) the appointment, in place of the
43 Superintendent, who has hitherto been employed, of Inspec-
44 tors to the charge of the salt mines at Guma and Drang in the
45 Mandi State with a local allowance of Rs. 50 a month to each.
46 (3) The medical staff of the Department was-also revised
47 and strengthened during the year. Assistant Sur-
48 geons wiil in future be appointed to the medical
49 charge of the Sdmbhar and cis-Indus Mines Divi-
50 sions in place of Hospital Assistants, and the fixed
51 rates of pay sanctioned for the Hospital Assistauts
52 at Pachbadra, Didwana and the Luni, with local
53 allowances in the case of the two latter sources, have
54 been revised so as to permit of the appointment of
55 a Hospital Assistant of any grade to any of the
56 three sources ; while local allowances of Rs. 15 have
57 been sanctioned for the charges of Pachbadra and
58 the Luni, and an allowance of Rs. 10 has been sanc-
59 tioned for the charge of Didwdna.
60 4, Itis very important that the officers of the Department
61 who are posted to the charge of salt mines in the Panjab
62 ( 3)
63 Training of officers ;
64 Boorkee College. _