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QUESTIONS BY DR. AMBEDKAR 289
Government Servants : Starting Pay of Graduates
Dr. P. G. Solanki on behalf of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Will Government be pleased to state—
( a ) whether it is a fact that Mr. S. K. Bole had put a question in the Council asking for information about the starting pay of Graduates in the City of Bombay ;
( b ) whether it is a fact that Government replied that Graduates were started on Rs. 90 except those serving in the Lower Grade in those offices, where the establishments are divided into “Upper and Lower Grades,” and that Government issued Government Resolution, Finance Department, No.
1140, dated 25th March 1925 directing the Heads of Departments accordingly ;
( c ) whether it is a fact that inspite of the abovementioned Government Resolution directing the Heads of Departments to start Graduates on Rs. 90 in the City of Bombay, the Collector of Bombay starts Graduates on Rs. 60 only in the departments under him, even though there are no Upper and Lower Grades in those departments ;
( d ) whether Government are aware that Graduates start on Rs. 70 in the mofussil ?
The Honourable Mr. G. B. Pradhan : ( a ) Yes.
( b ) Government replied that all Heads of Offices in Bombay were authorised to pay an initial salary of Rs. 90 to all graduates except those in the Lower Division in those offices in which the establishment is divided into Upper and Lower Divisions. Orders to the above effect were issued in Government Resolution, Finance Department, No. 1140, dated 25th March 1925.
( c ) Under the orders referred to by the Honourable Member Government have authorised their Heads of Offices to start graduates, except those in the Lower Division in those offices in which the establishment is divided into Upper and Lower Divisions, on an initial pay of Rs. 90 per mensem in the revised time scale. According to the above orders the Collector of Bombay gives an initial pay of Rs. 90 per mensem to a graduate where he thinks that a graduate clerk is absolutely necessary whereas in other cases graduates are given rates of pay ranging from Rs. 60 to Rs. 90 according to the importance of the work assigned to them.
( d ) Yes.
(B.L.C. Debates, Vol. XXV, p. 685, dated 28th February 1929)
Land Acquisition : Mulshi Dam
Dr. P. G. Solanki on behalf of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Will Government be pleased to state—
( a ) whether the lands of the Mahars of Mohari and Wadgaon, taluka Haveli, district Poona, were acquired by Government on account of the Mulshi dam ;
( b ) the rates at which the lands were acquired ;