1 INTERNAL BRANCH?
2 Import of salt from
3 Thibet and export of
4 salt from the North-
5 Western Provinces to
6 Nepal and other
7 places.
8 Bengal imports and
9 exports of salt,
10 Consumption of salt per
11 kead in provinces to
12 which salt is supplied
13 by the Department,
14 Appendix XV,
15 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
16 compared with 3 seers 1°65 chittak in 1899-tg00. The Com-
17 pany, as usual, complied fully with the conditions upon which
18 the concession was granted, and no irregularities of any kind
19 were discovered.
20 Messrs. Schréder, Smidt & Co. used no salt in their hide
21 curing business during the year, and the concession allowed
22 them was therefore inoperative.
23 The Delhi Oil & Soap Company, Limited, have also
24 received a concession of the right to use salt free of duty for
25 the manufacture of soap, but the agreement binding the
26 Company to observe the rules, which have been framed to
27 safeguard the working of the concession, has not yet been
28 executed.
29 In future, under the orders of the Government of India,
30 all firms (including the Delhi Company), receiving a cone
31 cession of the right to use salt free of duty for industrial
32 purposes, will be required to pay a fixed charge of Rs. 300a
33 year to cover the cost and trouble of the requisite inspections
34 and other departmental expenses involved.
35 65. Maunds 30,730 of Thibetan salt were imported into
36 Almora, Garhwal and Dehra Dun during the year, and maunds
37 88,797 of salt paying duty were exported to Nepal and other
38 places from the districts of the North-Western Provinces.
39 The Punjab External Trade Report shows that maunds 2,059
40 of salt from Thibet passed the trade registration posts at
41 Sultanpur and Wangtu during the year, but salt consumed in
42 Lahul, Spiti, the Upper Kulu Valley and the upper part of the
43 Rampur Bashahir State escapes registration.
44 66. The statistical information hitherto given as to the
45 quantity of salt imported into Bengal from other previnces,
46 and exported from Bengal to other provinces, which was in-
47 cluded in former reports, has this year been omitted. The
48 information, so far as this Department is concerned, has no
49 special value ; and a full account of the manner in which the salt
50 issued by this Department is distributed over the different
51 provinces supplied is contained in Appendix VI.
52 67. Appendix XV contains statistics of the consumption
53 of salt in the provinces with which the department is connect:
54 ed, omitting Baluchistan, as the information available in
55 regardto that province is defective. The figures of popu-
56 lation are those of this year’s Census. As directed by the
57 Government of India, the average consumption per head has
58 been calculated on the aggregate figures of the past three
59 years, and has also been worked ont on-the figures of the year
60 for purpose of comparison. The result is shewn below :—
61 Average consumption Average consump:
62 pet head tion per head
63 Province. according ta according to
64 three years’ one year’s
65 figures. figures.
66 Ibs. Ibs.
67 The Punjab, c7s-Indus and Kashmir ... 7°24 7°28
68 The Punjab, frams-Indus ... eco 5°02 701
69 North-Western Provinces and Oudh ... 7°22 7°34
70 Province of Behar in Bengal ww. 8°59 8:01
71 Central Provinces and Berar ee I15Q 11°85
72 Rajputane ss... _ eee 7°75 7°02
73 Central India ... ov we 8°70 8'50
74 As the Government of India will observe, except
75 in the ¢vans-Indus portion of the Punjab, there are no very
76 striking variations between the one year’s and the three years’
77 averages; and there is some advantage in working out the’
78 tesults year by year. The arrangements for obtaining salt
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