REWARDS FOR OUR INDIAN SOLDIERS
GRANTS- OF LAND SET ASIDE,/ (Rec. December 13, 5.5 p.m.) Delhi, December 12...:'; > For lias been the practice' of the Government to reward deserving, Indian military pensioners by grants of valuable land' in lie Punjab Canal Colonies, where the extension of irrigation brought into cultivation ehcr, inous areas of new land, for .which therel is keen competition. ~ Recently the Punjab Government,'' with the approval of the Government or India, has in its latest colony decided]' to increase tho allotment of 103,000/ acres reserved for army pensioners to 1 ') 178,000. Tho grants will be made afj] the end of the year. ? The additional'7s,ooo aores are specii ally reserved for this purpose and grant-J od to Indians distinguishing 'them l ! selves in the present campaign or their* heirs. This policy, it is thought, will;; meet with the widest approval in-the' '■ Punjab, which is the best recruiting'* ground for the Indian Army. ■ ' j' -
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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155REWARDS FOR OUR INDIAN SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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