INDIAN REFORMS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 7

INDIAN REFORMS

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

SECRETARY OF STATE CENSURED

(UNITED PRESS 'ASSOCIATION.—COPTMOII.)

(AUSTRALIAN 7 NBW ZEALAND CADIJS ASSOCIATION.)

s (Received 29th January, 9 a.m.) DELHI, 28th January.

In the Legislative Assembly, both the Democratic and. Nationalist Parties strongly attacked the Government over the Commission to inquire into the Public Services of. India. After a heated discussion, the Assembly adopted a vote of censure upon Viscount Peel, Secretary of State for India for appointing the Commission. The official speakers explained that the Commission was necessary in order to obtain the right stamp of Englishmen' and to reassure recruits i-egarding the position in years to come, as, at -present, there was no guarantee that services would be- retained after the revision of the Reforms policy in 1939. The chief contentions against the Commission ' were that it was not wanted. It was unnecessary that any inquiry should be conducted by the Government of India, and that the appointment of a Commission over the heads of, the Government and the Legislators of India was opposed to Viscount Peel's dispatch to the Viceroy, regarding the: working of reforcns. ' The Indians' opposition was obviously due to their inveterate prejudice to anything likely to» benefit the Services.