INDIAN CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 9

INDIAN CONFERENCE

FRAMING A CONSTITUTION

POSITIVE PROPOSALS SOOlf

(British Official Wlreleu.) EUGBY, 2nd Decembc* Sub-Committee No. 1 of the India* Bound Table Conference, to which ha» been committed the consideration of questions on the Federal structure, andf over which Lord Sankcy presides, br gan to-day its work in the preparati&4 of a framework of the Federal Const!* tution. It will meet daily this week and, ia the early stages, will bo engaged in tha clearing of ground and beginning more precisely the tasks before it. It should not be long before positive proposals begin to take shape. Tho Business Committee met this afternoon and constituted two more sub-committees for which the delegations had submitted lists of names. The pro%'isional constitution of £ sub-committee of , which the Foreign. Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, will be chairman, shows that it will have 28 members, including three from th» Indian States delegation, who will have a watching brief. The committee which is to consider the conditions enabling Burma to ba separated from India has 14 members,, but a chairman is not yet chosen.