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authority over every department, and the Procureur General more. over must be considered as the leader of the Bar, and must have an equivalent position. For these posts the 1919 salaries would be inadequate; and we recommend that the pay of the Colonial Secretary should in future be Rs.21,000 and that no reduction should now be made in the pay of the Procureur General.
The Medical and Agricultural Departments have been trans- formed since the Committee reported in 1919 and are now unques- tionably the most important of the administrative departments : an advance of sulary to Rs.18,000 is fully justified in the case of the Directors: but in the case of the Director of Agriculture this figure should cover (a) all allowances for work done at the Agri- cultural College and (b) the rental value of his quarters: if he continues to occupy his quarters without charge the pay of Rs.18,000 should be reduced. We understand that the Govern- ment has adopted a rate which corresponds with our recommenda- tion.
13. The total emoluments of the General Manager of Railways and Harbours have been fixed at Rs. 22,500, equal to those of the Colonial Secretary, while those of the Director of Public Works exceed those of the Procureur General. Neither post can be com- pared in importance with the two chief posts in the Colonial administration. Their disproportionate emoluments are the result of allowances given for work which is included in another section of the Colonial budget than that to which the main salaries of the two posts are charged. The Inspector-General of Police, whose pay alone has not been increased since 1919, receives no allow- ance for his heavy additional work as Superintendent of Prisons. and the Collector of Customs acts as Harbour Master without extra pay; but the General Manager of Railways has been allowed Rs.7,500 for managing the harbour works, which are charged to the Colonial budget proper and not to the Commercial Railway budget, and the Director of Public Works receives Rs.6,000 for supervising waterworks, the cost of which, like his allowance, is being met from the Improvement and Development Fund.
We have recommended in Chapter X that the Railway budget should be included in the general Colonial budget, and in Chapter XII that the Improvement and Development Fund should be closed, but in any case we see no ground for giving these allow- ances to full-time officers, even though the work for which they are responsible is charged to different sections of the budget. This class of allowance is open to strong objection, and both as a matter of principle and on grounds of economy we recommend that both allowances should immediately be stopped; we understand that the allowance to the Director of Public Works is due to lapse in the next financial year.
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The pay of the Director should on a vacancy be Rs.13,500, as the importance of the department is less than it was in the days of the Herchenroder Comunittee. In view of the cessation of the allowance the present incumbent should receive Rs.15,000.
We have some difficulty in determining what pay we should re- commend for the post of General Manager of Railways. Our proposals will in the end reduce the responsibilities of the post as compared with 1919, when a pay of Rs.13,500 was fixed by the Committee. On the other hand the reduction of the railway services will be work of unusual administrative difficulty, and the organization of the new harbour works will also be a responsible task. We must further take into consideration the fact that the present General Manager of Railways has entered the service with exceptional experience to judge from the emoluments which he received since 1923, before his admission to the regular service- and that he has assumed his duties as General Manager at a point of age which places him in an unfavourable position for pension. As a special case, therefore, we recommend that his inclusive pay as General Manager, Railways and Harbour Works, should be Rs.20,000. At the next vacancy the pay of the post should be reduced to Rs.15,000.
14. The group of superior officers is completed by two legal posts, those of the Substitute Procureur General and of the Registrar General, for both of which we recommend a pay in excess of the 1919 scale. We have referred in Chapter III to the need for relieving the Procureur and for making the Substitute responsible equally with him for answering legal references from the depart- ments; his status must therefore be raised.
The Registrar General not only has work of great technical responsibility, but has a unique personal liability for its correctness. His pay is at present increased by a personal allowance of Rs.1,500. While recommending that the allowance should be discontinued we do not consider that the substantive pay of the post should be lowered.
15. In list II of Appendix III the senior group consists of the heads of lesser departments, the deputy heads of major depart- ments, and the comparable legal officials. We consider that in general the 1919 rates would be inadequate for posts the importance of which has inevitably grown both with the expansion of depart- ments and the demand for a more modern system of administration. Our scheme for the revision of the Secretariat requires, for example, two Assistant Colonial Secretaries, for whom a pay of Rs.9,000 would be impossible and a pay of Rs.12,000 is not excessive. The same rate is not too much for the Auditor or for the new post of Deputy Director of the Medical Department who will be immediately responsible for controlling in detail the expenditure of one million rupees in the hospitals. We have explained else- where the increased responsibility which we propose to give to the
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