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Practically all the countries in the neighbourhood of the Colony India is equally effected, and the cost of living in India is as high as in Hong Kong. Moreover the Government of India is adding half the high cost of living allowance in the pensions to their officers who retired on pension between 1941 to 1946 i.e, before the revision of salaries in India. Hence the argument of high cost of living in Hong Kong only is not based on facts.
(c) That the petitioners were repatriated to India not on leave, but under compulsion due to the policy of the Government, and they should not be made to suffer on this account.
(4) That the petitioners are aware that their colleagues, ho have been recalled for further services, were with us in India throughout 1946 and 1947, and have returned to the Colony in early 1948 only, have received their arrears of salary for 1946 and 1947. If the increased salary was just to meet the high cost of living in the colony, this arrears of salary to persons, who were not in the colony should not have been paid.
(e) That the petitioners do not consider that the Indians in the service, when coming on leave in India will only be granted salaries at the rates prevailing before 1945, as the general increase, in the view of the Government, was meant to meet the high cost of living in the colony.
(f) That as the Government did not require our services any longer, we should have been allowed the full benefit of the increased salaries which were raised in 1946, and again in 1947 to which we are legally and equitably entitled to as we were in service upto the end of January 1948.
(g) That the petitioners submit that the Government is under the misapprehension that the necessity for an enhanced pension on abolition of office do not arise in the Police Force, since the pension factor, which enables a policeman to be granted a higher pension, all things being equal, the other Government servants is not borne out by the facts as the following tables will show:-
(1)A (Indian Policeman) with 20 years service with salary of $372.00 per annum, if he retires, his pension will be:-
Length of service..
Add Climate allce........ Total service.
Pension factor 300/720.
Salary.
Pension.
.20 years.
•20
25 years: 300 months.
$372.00 per annum.
......300/720 X 372.00 $155.00 annum. (ii) B. (European Policeman) with 20 years service with a salary of $372.00 per annum, if he retires his pension would be:-
Pension factor 14/50 plus 120/600: 288/600
#372.00 per annum.
Salary
Pension
288/600 X 372 00:178.56 per.A. (iii) C (Indian Prison Warders, the so called the other Government servants, who can also retire at the age of 45.) with 20 years service with a salary of $372.00 per annum, if he reires his pension would be:-
Length of service 20 years.
Add climate allce.. 5
Total. 25 years: 300 months.
Pension factor 300/720
Pensionable emoluments $372.00 plus 372/6:434.00 Pension.........300/720 x 434.00 $180.83 P.A.
434.00$180.83