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IN SUB-COMMITTEE NO. VIII 595
Chairman: I should not say that because that will raise a point of controversy. All you want to say is that recruitment to all Services should be thrown open to them.
Lieut.-Colonel Gidney : That there shall be no disqualification for such employment.
Chairman: May I point this out ? If we are to make this Report read intelligibly it is a little awkward if we have two consecutive paragraphs which seem to me to cover exactly the same ground, and therefore I would suggest to Dr. Ambedkar that if we have these words it is better that they should come after clause 5. We should make our general recommendations in clause 5, and then I suggest we should attach a paragraph at the end of clause 5 saying something of this sort : “In making this recommendation,”— that is to say the recommendation in clause 5 — “the Sub-Committee have particularly in mind the case of the depressed classes. They desire”, and so on.
Dr. Ambedkar: Very well.
Chairman: We will discuss clause 5 first if you do not mind and see whether we ought to add some clause to that effect. Has anyone any observations to make on clause 5 as it is drafted ?
Raja Narendra Nath: That is what I said. I suggested after “disability” you should add “or shall be prejudiced in any way”.
Chairman: I will put that later. We will take it subject to that point; we will come to that later.
Dr. Ambedkar suggests, having passed clause 5, that we should add these words, “In making this recommendation the Sub-Committee have particularly in mind the case of the depressed classes ; they desire that a generous policy be adopted in the matter of the employment of the depressed classes in Public Services, and in particular recommend that the recruitment to all Services, including the Police, should be thrown open to them.” That is the amendment proposed by Dr. Ambedkar to be added on to the end of clause 5.
Those in favour of that please signify; those of the contrary opinion; it is carried.