1 Adjustment of the ac-
2 counts of the Depart-
3 ment with the Comp-
4 troller, India Treasur-
5 ies.
6 Strength of establish-
7 ment.
8 Recruitment of the
9 superior executive
10 grades of the Depart+
11 ment
12 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
13 maunds 26,36,247 issued by the Bombay Salt Department)-
14 The amount properly chargeable to this Department under
15 this head appears therefore to be Rs. 17,23,393; and if this
16 sum be added to the charges of the Department during the
17 year, the percentage of charges on receipts will be 13°18,
18 4. The accounts of the Department for the year
19 1899-1900 were adjusted during the year under report in
20 communication with Comptroller, India Treasuries ; and the
21 Departmental figures of receipts and charges agree in alk
22 respects with the Treasury Accounts.
23 5. The sanctioned strength of officers and men in the
24 Department at the close of the year comprised, in addition to
25 the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, seven Assist-
26 ant Commissioners, 29 Superintendents, 7 Assistant Superin-
27 tendents (excluding probationaries), 91 Inspectors, 50 Eng-
28 lish clerks, 75 vernacular clerks, 197 petty officers and
29 1,533 peons. Theactual strength consisted of seven Assist-
30 ant Commissioners, 29 Superintendents, six substantive
31 Assistant Superintendents, and one officiating and three pro-
32 bationary Assistant Superintendents, all of whom also were
33 officiating as Assistant Superintendents, 94 Inspectors, 50
34 English clerks and 81 vernacular clerks, 214 petty officers
35 and 1,624 peons. The appointments in excess of the sanc-
36 tioned scale are being absorbed as vacancies occur. Under
37 the reorganisation scheme for Officers and Inspectors, which
38 was sanctioned by the Secretary of State in his Despatch No.
39 73, dated roth May 1900, two Superintendents and three
40 Assistant Superintendents, out of the total of 41 formerly
41 employed, were brought under reduction, and the number of
42 Inspectors was reduced from 101 to gi. One appointment
43 of Superintendent was absorbed in 1899-1900 and four more
44 in 1900-1901, and of the ten excess appointments of Ins-
45 pectors, seven were absorbed up to the 31st March 1go1, and
46 only three remained to be absorbed to complete the reorgan-
47 isaticn.
48 Proposals for the revision and reduction of the subor-
49 dinate establishments employed in the Department were sub-
50 mitted during the year under report, and were sanctioned by
51 the Government of India in the letter from the Finance and
52 Commerce Department, No. 5084-Ex., dated 19th October
53 1900. The number of the vernacular clerks was reduced
54 from 88 to 75, and the pay and grading were revised, the
55 pay of the lowest grade among other changes being raised
56 from Rs. 15 to Rs. 20. The revision will result eventually
57 ina saving of Rs. 660a year. The sanctioned scale of per-
58 manent inferior servants formerly cost Rs. 16,523 a month,
59 while the average monthly cost of the temporary establish-
60 ment was Rs. 743-12-0. The revised scale of permanent es-
61 tablishment sanctioned by the Government of India will cost
62 Rs. 12,832 a month, and the cost of the temporary estab-
63 lishments will be about Rs. 9425-4 a month. The estab-
64 lishment of English clerks has not yet been revised.
65 The saving which will eventually be effected by the pro-
66 posals will be Rs. 36,458 a year.
67 6. By the orders conveyed in the letter of the Government
68 of India in the Finance Department, No. 3432-Ex., dated roth
69 July 1900, the question’of recruitment for the higher executive
70 grades of the Department has been placed upon a satisfactory
71 footing. Under the rules issued in February 1891 and the revis-
72 ed rules issued in April 1899, first appointments to these gradss
73 ( 2)