1 Reorganization of the
2 establishment and its
3 present strength.
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5 @REPORT QN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
6 g. Tocomplete the reorganization of the establishment of
7 the: Department, 1 proposed to the Government of India in my
8 letter No.1 78, dated the atst of January 1902,—(a) a revision of
9 the pay and grading of the Upper Division clerks in the Depart-
10 ment involving an increase of cost of Rs. 370 a month, or Rs.
11 4,440 a year; (4) an addition of Rs. 10 a month, or Rs.120
12 a year, to the local allowance of the Inspector of the Nari
13 Beat in the Kohat Mines Division; and (c) reductions in
14 the preventive establishment employed at the czs-Indus,
15 Kohat and Mandi Mines resulting in a saving of Rs. 670 a
16 month, or Rs. 8,040 a year. Under these proposals the
17 appointments of an Inspector on Rs. 50, a Jemadaron Rs. to
18 and 79 peons on Rs. 7 each a month were abolished; and
19 local allowances of Rs. 50 and Rs, 20 a month appertaining
20 to two Beats in the cis-Indus and Kohat Mines Divisions,
21 which were not retained as separate charges, were discon-
22 tinued. In the letter from the finance Department, No. 2305-
23 Ex., dated the and May %go2, the Government of India
24 approved generaily of my proposals, bit amended the grading
25 of the clerks in a manner which reduced the increase .of
26 expenditure proposed from Rs. 4,440 to Rs. 2,580 a year.
27 Later, in my letter No. 302, dated the 6th of February 1903,
28 when submitting a complete revised schedule of the estab-
29 lishment of the Department for formal sanction, | reported
30 that the continued decline of the Sultanpur Salt Works
31 rendered the retention of an Inspector, with a local allowance
32 of Rs. 30 a month, in the charge of the Sadrana cluster of
33 works unnecessary, and the abolition of the allowance was
34 accordingly proposed. The sanction of the Government of
35 * India to the revised schedule was accorded in letter No. 1295-
36 Ex., dated the 7th March 1903, from the Finance Department.
37 The final result of the revision effected of the establishment
38 of the Department is a saving of Rs 38,417 a year.
39 Besides the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, the
40 present sanctioned strength of the permanent establishment
41 of the Department comprises 7 Assistant Commissioners, 29
42 Superintendents, 7 Assistant Superintendents (excluding pro-
43 bationers), 90 Inspectors, 135 clerks, 182 petty officers,
44 1,468 peons, weighmen, daftaris and khalasis, 2 Medical
45 Officers, 3 Hospital Assistants and 7 hospital servants.
46 The absorption in vacancies of 1 Inspector, 6 petty ‘officers
47 and. 100 peons, who were supernumeraries, was effected
48 during the year; and there were 4 petty officers and 35
49 peons holding supernumerary appointments at its close.
50 These will be absorbed as vacancies occur,
51 Resp ne ok Seabentine 10. A competitive examination for admission to the higher
52 examinations for ad-
53 mission to the supe- grades of the Department was held during March 1903. Six
54 rior executive grades
55 of the Depa:tment.
56 candidates were nominated, but of these, 2 failed to appear.
57 Of the 4 candidates who were examined, 2, Messrs. S. W.
58 Murphy and E. P. Chestney, obtained more than the qualify-
59 ing number of marks. It,was originally intended to make 1
60 appointment only in accordance with (he result of the exam-
61 ination ; but as 4 vacancies in the superior executive grades
62 (2 of them unexpected) occurred during the year, and as
63 both the candidates who qualified were in other respects
64 apparently well fitted for employment in the Department, they
65 have both been appointed probationary Assistant Superinten-
66 dents. Five candidates were nominated to sit at the competitive
67 examination that was held in March 1go2 and three failed to
68 appear. The candidates examined, who were both natives of
69 India, qualified, and the one who obtained the higher number of
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