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3 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1902903.
4 marks was appointed a probationary Assistant Superintendent.
5 He threw up his appointment, however, after a short experience
6 of Pachbadra, and the remaining candidate was then appoint-
7 ed. Elementary Inorganic Chemistry, which requires specia
8 study, is one of the compulsory subjects for examination
9 and it is necessary therefore to give permission to candidates
10 to appear in the examination many. months in advance. In
11 the interval, it not infrequently happens that candidates shrink
12 from the ordeal of a competitive examination, or change
13 their minds and obtain other employment. Of 11 candidates
14 nominated to sit at thesetwo examinations, no less than 5
15 have failed to appear. In future under these circumstances
16 it will be necessary to interpret somewhat liberally rule
17 VI of the Rules (sanctioned by the Government of India
18 im letter No. 4283-S R., dated the jotlf August 1goo, from
19 the Finance Department) to regulate first appointments to
20 the surerior executive grades of the Department. The rule
21 directs that ordinarily not more than 5 candidates are to be
22 nominated for each expected vacancy. In future sufficient
23 nominations will be given to ensure that the number of candi-
24 dates actually competing for each vacancy is not likely to be
25 Jess than 5. The examination should be a really competitive
26 one, in order that the best candidates may be secured for
27 the Department, and this object can hardly be said to be
28 attained, when, as in March 1902, only 2 candidates appeared
29 out of 5 nominated.
30 11, Mr. H. B. Welsh, Superintendent of the Nawa
31 Manufacturing Section of the Sambhar Leake, was deputed
32 during the year to the Thomason Civil Engineering College
33 at Roorkee for instruction in levelling and surveying. He
34 passed the course satisfactorily and obtained a certificate of
35 proficiency.
36 12. The sales of salt which paid full duty amounted to
37 maunds 70,55,950 compared with maunds 69,16,711 sold in
38 1901-02, an increase of maunds 1,39,239- The sales at the
39 Sambhar Lake were larger by maunds 3,47,240, but the trade
40 of Pachbadra and Didwana fell off by maunds 3,37,462. The
41 quantity of salt excised {rom saltpetre refineries was larger by
42 maunds 4,524, while transactions at the Sultanpur Salt Works
43 declined by maunds 5,636. In the czs-Indus Mines Divisio
44 there was an increase of maunds 1,30,573 in sales compared
45 with 1go1-02. The improvement in the tétal sales of the
46 Department was therefore the result of a greater demand for
47 the rock salt of the Punjab.
48 13. There was aedecrease of maunds 82,238 in the quan-
49 tity of salt paying full duty which was issued for consumption
50 from the sources, maunds 71,46,043 only having been issued
51 against maunds 72,28,281 in 1901-02. The quantity was,
52 however, larger than that of tgo0-o1 (maunds 70,54,847) by
53 maunds 91,196. Compared with 1go1-o2 the clearances
54 from.the Sambhar Lake were larger by maunds 4,06,245, but
55 the quantity issued from Didwana and Pachbadra was less by
56 maunds 5,18,414. In the Punjab, the issues from the Sultan-
57 pur Salt Works declined by maunds 6,818, but the clearances
58 from the czs-Indus Mines show an impiovement of maunds
59 32,225,
60 ¢ 14 The sales of salt which paid special rates of duty
61 amounted to maunds §,04,506 against maunds 5,65,253 in
62 Igot-0o2. There was also a decrease of maunds 62,100 in
63 the quantity issued for consumption, the clearances amounting
64 (7)
65 Training oftofficers at
66 the Roorkee College.
67 Sales of salt which pid
68 fuil duty.
69 Appendix II.
70 Issues of salt which paid
71 fuil duty.
72 Appendix II.
73 Sales and issues of salt
74 which paid special
75 rates of duly,
76 Appendix II.