With regard to the
Minto-Morley reforms, the Bureaucracy showed great efficiency in
destroying the benefits intended by the Parliamentary Statute. But the
third test shows that in giving Indians a fair voice in the Councils the
Bureaucracy was inefficient.
_The fourth test, the Admission of Indians to the Public Services:_ This
is shown, by the Report of the Commission, not to need any destructive
activity on the part of the Bureaucracy to prove their unwillingness to
pass it, for the Report protects them in their privileged position.
We may add to Gokhale's tests one more, which will be triumphantly
passed, the success of the Bureaucracy in increasing the cost of
administration. The estimates for the revenue of the coming year stand
at L86,199,600 sterling. The expenditure is reckoned at L85,572,100
sterling. The cost of administration stands at more than half the total
revenue:
Civil Departments Salaries and Expenses L19,323,300
Civil Miscellaneous Charges 5,283,300
Military Services 23,165,900
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L47,772,500
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The reduction of the abnormal cost of government in India is of the most
pressing nature, but this will never be done until we win Home Rule.
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