File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’ [‎147r] (298/368)

for. We therefore propose to add G more inferior appointments to the Military
cadre. This addition will make the promotion of military officers to the
superior grades slower than that of civilians, and is in accordance with the
principles laid down in paragraph 5 above, but it will, as elsewhere shown, still
leave their prospects considerably better than at present.
We have further increased the military training reserve from 4 (the
figure arrived at by the usual method of calculation) to 6 . We consider the
higher figure necessary to meet the special requirements of the Department
as explained below and to enable us to provide duly qualified junior officers
when emergencies arise.
Altering the calculation for total strength as explained above, the strength
of the Department will work out as follows, on the assumption that the service
will, in future, he composed as far as may he conveniently possible of 30 per cent,
members of the Indian Civil Service and 70 per cent, military officers, and on
this point we would desire to express our conviction that this is the result w hich
should he aimed at in future in order to secure a sufficient proportion of the
former element. At present the proportion is more nearly one-fourth to three-
fourths, and difficulty is occasionally experienced in officering those posts
adequately in wTiich the training of a member of the Indian Civil Service is
essential :—
—
Civil.
Military.
Total.
f Superior ...
Cadre ... ...<
26
47
1 111
(.Inferior
8*
30t
)
Reserve for deputation, etc. ... ....
1
3
4
„ „ leave ...
10
20
30
„ „ training
1
6
7
Total strength of Political Department
46
1C6
152
Members of the Indian Civil Service of below 5 years’
service to be provided for in tne various provinces.
7 :
...
Total
53
106
159
* Including one officer in the 3rJ and 4th years’ seivice in the North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. Province corresponding
to the one in training.
f Twcnty-fcnr would be the exact number which would render the promotion of military officers up to the
superior grades equal to that of civilians.
J The seven officers who will be provided for in the grades of Assistant Collectors will be made up of three
in training, three in the 3rd and 4th years’ service, and one for a leave reserve on the same.
8 . It is more than probable that, within a very short time, we shall he
compelled to appoint other officers to the semi-consular posts in Persia and the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . You have already sanctioned, proposals to post officers of the
Political Department at Koweit and Bahrein ; we have accordingly included
these appointments in our present scheme. Katif and other places, which are
attracting daily a greater share of the attention of Foreign Powers, may also at
any time require, for the protection of our parnmpunt interests, the appoint
ment of a representative of the Government of India, hut we have made no
provision here to meet these probable cDntingencies.
In these circumstances, u r e do not consider that a Department, recruited to
provide a margin of only 4 per cent, for deputations will prove at all too large.
Indeed we fear that it may prove, at no distant date, inadequate, as, owing to