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468 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
APPENDIX XXIII
COMMUNAL REPRESENTATION IN SERVICES
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RESOLUTION*
Establishments
the 4th July 1934
SECTION I–GENERAL
No. F. 14/17-B./33. – In accordance with undertakings given in the Legislative Assembly the Government of India have carefully reviewed the results of the policy followed since 1925 of reserving a certain percentage of direct appointments to Government service for the redress of communal inequalities. It has been represented that though this policy was adopted mainly with the object of securing increased representation for Muslims in the public services, it has failed to secure for them their due share of appointments and it has been contended that this position cannot be remedied unless a fixed percentage of vacancies is reserved for Muslims. In particular, attention has been drawn to the small number of Muslims in the Railway services, even on those railways which run through areas in which Muslims form a high percentage of the total population.
The review of the position has shown that these complaints are justified, and the Government of India are satisfied by the enquiries they have made that the instructions regarding recruitment must be revised with a view to improving the position of Muslims in the services.
- In considering this general question the Government of India have also to take into account the claims of AngloIndians and Domiciled Europeans and of the depressed classes. Anglo-Indians have always held a large percentage of appointments in certain branches of the public service and it has been recognised that, in view of the degree to which the community has been dependent on this employment, steps must be taken to prevent in the new conditions anything in the nature of a rapid displacement of AngloIndians from their existing positions, which might occasion a violent dislocation of the economic structure of the com
- Gazette of India, Part I, July 7, 1934.