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GOVERNMENT OP INDIi.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
Enclosure to despatch no. 183 of 1919.
No. 756-M. S., dated, Peshawar, the 12th December 1918.
From—The Hon'ble Sir George Roos-Kepprl, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., Chief Commis
sioner, North-West Frontier Province,
To—The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
I attach a statement of allowances and increases in establishment
temporarily sanctioned during the war for frontier Militia, Frontier Constabu
lary and Levies. Of the concessions under the seven heads of that statement
four were sanctioned “ for the duration of the war and one year after ”, one
“ for the duration of the war and six months after ” and two <£ for the duration
of the war These latter are :—
(1) War batta for Militia and Frontier Constabulary at an annual cost
of Rs. 2,31,047, and
(2) war concessions to Dir and Swat Levies at a cost of Rs. 21,348.
The cost of living has increased enormously during the war and the terms f
of service in the regular army have been greatly improved, especially by the
grant of free rations, and it will be necessary, after the war, to revise the condi
tions of service of all civil forces in the Frontier Province in the light of the
above changes. Even now the terms of service are so unattractive that in spite
of every effort to keep up recruiting the Militias are below strength and if they
are to be kept on permanently in their present state Government will have to
face a very considerable increase in their cost. Their reorganisation and the
revision of their rates of pay will take some time—at least a year after the
close of the war—and were the present rates of pay and allowances, which are
in themselves insufficient, suddenly to be reduced by the stoppage of the war
allowances, the result would be a debacle which would wreck the organization
and would necessitate at least a partial occupation by troops of the outposts at
present held by Militia and Constabulary. It is not possible even to lay the
foundations for any new scheme of revision until something is known of the
future composition and distribution of the regular Indian Army and of its
terms of pay and service.
I have the honour to recommend that very early sanction should be given
to the extension for one year after the war to the war batta for Militia and
Frontier Constabulary sanctioned in your telegram No. 1146-D. of 15th March
1916, and to the concessions to the Dir and Swat Levies sanctioned in your
letter No. 463-F. of 15th November 1917.