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588 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
have the power to pass a resolution of want of confidence in the Public Services Commission, just as, for instance —
Sir Chimanlal Setalvad: That would defeat the whole object.
Dr. Ambedkar: If this means is not desirable, I shall welcome some other means and some other method on this point, but I do feel very strongly that it is no use having a Public Services Commission which may be interested in their own community and not in others.
† Sir Chimanlal Setalvad: ....... Having laid it down that the Public Services Commission shall secure a fair representation to the various communities, we would give power to the Governor, in his Instrument of Instructions, to see that such fair representation was secured.
Dr. Ambedkar: You might provide in clause 2 that this should be subject to such directions as may be given them by the Governor.
Sir Chimanlal Setalvad: That is giving too much power to the Governor. All you want to secure is a fair representation for the various communities ; you want to see that the fair representation which we have provided that the Public Services Commission shall allot is in fact secured.
Mr. Zafrullah Khan: How will the Governor see to that ?
Chairman : Major Stanley has been good enough to make this suggestion, which may be a via media . He suggests some words to this effect, that at the end of clause 2 we might insert : “This part of the duty of the Public Services Commissions shall be subject in the case of the Provincial Public Services Commissions to the periodic review of the Governor, and, in the case of the Central Public Services Commission, of the Governor-General, who shall be empowered to issue any necessary instructions to secure the desired result.”
Dr. Ambedkar: Yes.
Sir Chimanlal Setalvad: That is all right; I am prepared to accept that.
‡ Mr. Shiva Rao: I want to suggest that we say that every member of the Public Services Commissions shall hold office during his good behaviour, and that the Chairman and other members of the Public Services Commissions shall not be removed from office except by the Governor-General on an address by the Central Legislature, and in the case of the Provincial Public Services Commissions by the Governor of the Province concerned on an address by the Provincial Legislature.
Chairman: Mr. Shiva Rao has suggested a new clause, and he puts the point quite clearly. We do not tie ourselves to language but the substance of it is that we should state as a new clause that office is to be held during good behaviour and that a member of the Public Services Commissions, whether Chairman or an ordinary member, is to be removable on an address of the
†Proceedings of Sub-Committee No. VIII (Services), pp. 121-22.
‡ Ibid.. p. 124.