INDIAN PROVINCES
AUTONOMY SYSTEM
OPERATION ON APRIL 1, 1937
(British Onicial Wircieas.7
(Received May 29, noon.) RUGBY, May 28. Newspapers, in comment on draft Orders in Council under the Government of India Act issued yesterday; express satisfaction that it has been possible to fix April 1, 1937, as the date for the setting up of the system of provincial autonomy in the eleven British Indian provinces and for the separation of Burma.
This decision has been facilitated by the Government's adoption of the report of Sir Otto Niemeyer on the allocation of certain revenues between the central and provincial Governments.
The draft orders will be considered by Parliament shortly after the Whitsuntide recess.
The general effect of the new system of Government in India is that in the provinces and with certain reservations there will be a system of Parliamentary government "except where circumstances call for the over-riding [powers of the Governor-General." The discipline of police and the independence of the judiciary are protected from political influence. Burma i? to be' separated from India and a new Constitution is to be granted Burma on the lines of that .for India. The eleven provinces (two of which will be new) will be linked in a Federal system. ~ . i
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Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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