The report went before cabinet on 24 May and 7 June 1918 and was embodied in the Govt. of India Act 1919. These reforms represented the maximum concessions the British were prepared to make at that time.The franchise was extended, and increased authority was given to central and provincial legislative concils, but the viceroy remained responsile only to London.
The departments responsible for maintaining the "steel frame " of the British Govt. such as finance,revenue and home were retained by the councillors nominated by the British Govt., In 1921 another change recommended by the report was carried out when elected local council were set up in rural areas, and during 1920s urban municipal corporations were made more democratic and Indianized.
But the 1919 reforms didnot satisfy political demands in India. The British repressed opposition , and restrictions on the presss and on movement were reenacted in the Rowlatt Acts. followed by jalianawalabagh massacre in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1919..Montagu Chelmsford report was reviewed 10 years after by Simmon Commision. gandhi attended the 1931 roundtable conference in London in 1930,1931, and 1932. A new Govt. of india Act came into being in 1935.