Council and Assembly at stated communities or groups of intervals, or on the requisition communities in Madras and the of a certain proportion of Bombay Deccan and elsewhere who members of the Assembly. at present demand special electoral protection should be 8. No dissolution of the adequately safeguarded by legislature shall take place introducing a system of plural except by way of an appeal to constituencies in which a the electorate and the reason reasonable number of seats shall be stated in writing should be reserved for those countersigned by the Ministers. communities. (e) In the case of any community for which separate special electorates may be deemed at present necessary, participation in the general territorial electorates, whether as voters or candidates, should not be permitted. (f) It shall be left to the option of an individual belonging to a community which is given separate representation to enrol himself as a voter either in the general or the communal electorate. _Parliament and India Office_ (e) The control of Parliament (XI) This Conference, while and of the Secretary of State generally approving of the must only be modified as the proposals embodied in the Report responsibility of the Indian and regarding the India Office and provincial Governments to the Parliamentary control, urges:-- electorates is increased. No power over provincial (a) That the administrative Governments now exercised by control of Parliament over the Parliament and by the Secretary Government of India exercised of State must be transferred to through the Secretary of State the Government of India, save in should continue except in so far matters of routine as the control of the administration until the legislature on the spot is latter is responsible to substituted for the present the electorates. Parliamentary control.