118 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
University from the Provincial to the Imperial Budget. [1] To take account of the revision of charges for Official Postage, [2] and Bengal Police, [3] and the additions and withdrawals of services referred to above, the Imperial assignments to Provincial Governments for the year 1871-2 were further altered so that they stood as shown in the table on the preceding page.(Page 117)
Besides these assignments for the fiscal year 1871-2, the Government of India gave the Local Governments a special donation of £200,000 in the year 1870-1 in order that they “may be able to inaugurate the plan successfully, and to have as it were a fair start.” Taking round numbers then, the several Provincial Governments had the following resources [4] at their disposal in the year 1871-2 to meet the expenditure incorporated in their budgets :—
| Provincial Budget for | Resources | Col3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receipts surrendered by the Imperial Government | Assignments from the Imperial Treasury | ||
| Oudh Central Provinces Burma Bengal N.W. Provinces Punjab Madras Bombay | £ 14,700 24,000 28,600 264,800 110,000 67,400 81,890 55,300 | £ 211,300 269,600 276,500 1,197,900 635,000 528,800 752,300 901,200 | £ 226,000 293,000 305,100 1,462,700 745,000 596,200 834,100 956,500 |
Having analysed the constitution of the Provincial Budgets and noted the receipts and charges incorporated into them, we will proceed to inquire into the peculiarity which marks their constitution as framed in 1870-1. No method of ascertaining this peculiarity would be more direct in its approach towards the question raised above than to ask ourselves what problem the framers of the Provincial Budgets were presented with and how it
1 Letter from the Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department, No. 1683 dated March 21, 1871.
2 Finance Department Resolution No. 1659 of March 20, 1871.
3 Finance Department Resolution No. 1587 of March 20, 1871.
4 Financial Statement of 1871-2.