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Sub-Range, and Babu R. K. Ram, temporary (Veterinary) Disease
Investigation Officer, also retired from service during the year. The
post of Lecturer of Anatomy at the Bihar Veterinary College was
temporarily held by Mr. M. A. Rahim, a member of the Subordinate
Veterinary Service. The post of Professor of Medicine and Physiology
remained unfilled during the year. The proposal for filling up the vacant
post of Assistant Director of the Department did not materialise. Owing
to rapid expansion of work, want of such officers in ranges to relieve the
Deputy Directors of their routine field and office works is keenly felt and
in order to maintain efficiency it will be necessary to create one post of
Assistant Director for the Central Range and revive the vacant post
referred to above.
SUBORDINATE.
97. Excluding the non-gazetted officers employed at the Bihar
Veterinary College and the Government Cattle Farm the subordinate staff
of the Department at the beginning of the year consisted of 155 officers.
In the course of the year 1st grade veterinary inspector Babu D. C. Guha
and senior grade II veterinary assistant surgeon Babu C. K. Mukherji
retired from service while senior grade II veterinary assistant surgeon
Maulavi M. H. Khan and 1st grade veterinary assistant surgeon Babu
R. S. Prasad died. During the year Babus H. K. Roy and M. M. Banerji
were promoted to 1st grade inspectorship and the resultant vacancies in
the 2nd grade were filled by promoting Babus A K. Ghosh and I. B. Ghosh,
Babu B. Prasad I, temporary 3rd grade veterinary inspector, reverted to his
substantive post of veterinary assistant surgeon due to unsatisfactory work
and staff veterinary assistant surgeon Maulavi S. M. A. Fazal acted in the
vacancy thus caused till the 8th March 1941, when Babu N. D. Singh,
who was officiating as 3rd grade veterinary inspector, was appointed to
the post on probation. Maulavi A. U. Ahmed, who was officiating as
3rd grade veterinary inspector, was absorbed against a permanent vacancy
while senior grade II veterinary assistant surgeons Babu P. K. Roy and
Maulavi S. Mohammed were promoted to the inspector's grade against
the vacancies caused by the retirement of the officers noted above and the
reversion of the officiating veterinary inspector Babu S. D. Narain for
unsatisfactory work. Staff veterinary assistant surgeon Babu R. D. Singh,
veterinary assistant surgeons Babus D. Dey and S. B. Lal (later appointed
staff veterinary assistant surgeon of the North Bihar Range), acted in
leave and other vacancies caused by the temporary appointment of 3rd
grade veterinary inspectors Babus B. L. Moitra and J. N. Mukherji as
Assistant Investigation Officer (Poultry) and Lecturer of the Bihar
Veterinary College, respectively. During the year two more vacan-
cies of staff veterinary assistant surgeons in Central Range and Chota
Nagpur Sub-Range were filled by 1st grade-veterinary assistant surgeons
Babu D. Prasad and Maulavi M. S. Khan. Reserve veterinary assistant
surgeon Maulavi Q. Khan was appointed to the temporary post of ins-
pector in charge of the Goat Tissue Virus Scheme on reversion from his
temporary appointment of Inspector at the Imperial Veterinary Research
Institute. Nine Bihar Veterinary graduates were recruited to the