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68 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
as the relations of the Minister and any other superior administrative officer.
The Honourable Mr. B. G. Kher: No. I am afraid not.
- Discussion resumed
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay City): Sir I want to move an amendment to the amendment of the honourable member Mr. More.
The Honourable the Speaker: Is it a different one ?
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Yes, it is a different one. My amendment is this :
“For the words ‘removable from his office as such administrative officer’ substitute the following : —
‘under the disciplinary control of the school board and shall be liable to such punishment for breach of discipline at the hands of the school board by a resolution duly passed, subject to a right of appeal by the administrative officer, as may be provided for by rules.’
So that the whole of the amendment with my amendment will read thus—
‘The administrative officer shall be under the disciplinary control of the school board and shall be liable to such punishment for breach of discipline at the hands of the school board by a resolution duly passed subject to a right of appeal by the administrative officer, as may be provided for by rules.’ ”
The Honourable the Speaker: We should add “by the school board” after the word “passed” and change “provided for” into “prescribed”.
The amendment will then read—
Delete the words beginning from “removable from his office” and ending with the words “shall forthwith withdraw the administrative officer”, and substitute instead the following : —
“under the disciplinary control of the school board and shall be liable to such punishment for breach of discipline at the hands of the school board by a resolution duly passed by the school board, subject to a right of appeal by the administrative officer, as may be prescribed by rules.”
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay City): Sir, the amendment which I am moving is totally different from the amendment which has been moved by my honourable friend Mr. More. Mr. More’s amendment provides that under certain circumstances, the school board shall have the right to remove from office the administrative officer who has been appointed by Government. My amendment is fundamentally different from the amendment of Mr. More. My amendment does not give the school board the power to remove or dismiss an administrative officer. All that the amendment seeks to do is this that during the period when an administrative officer is engaged in doing his service as an administrative officer under a particular school board, that school board shall have disciplinary control over him. Sir, it must be realised that clause 12 of the Bill is an anomalous
*B.L.A. Debates, Vol. 3, pp. 2679-82, dated 30th April 1938.