32 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Rs. 10,000 for the Satyavadi Vidyalaya.
Rs. 5,000 Swavalamban Rashtriya Pathshala ( xiv ) .
Rs. 5,000 to Dr. Sathaye for carrying on such work as the Congress Labour Committee decides ( xxxiv ) . ”
IV. Grants voted by the Working Committee at its meeting held in Nagpur on 7th, 8th, 11th and 12th July 1923 :—
“79. Rs. 20,000 to Sjt. Brajaraj, Secretary, Hindi Sahitya Sammelan for the work of teaching Hindustani in the Madras Presidency ( ix ) .
- Rs. 2,000 to the C. P. Hindustani Provincial Congress Committee to be utilized for general Congress purposes with special regard to rendering help to Satyagraha in Nagpur ( xi ) . ”
The reader may not get a precise idea of the management or mismanagement of public funds by the Congress from this itemized account of expenditure. Was this expenditure regulated by any principle ? Was it distributed according to the needs of the Provinces ? Consider the following table:—
Table 2
| Provinces | Amount Granted | Population† | Percentage Grant due on the basis of Popula- tion ratio to total Population | Percentage of Grant actually paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General—All- India* ... Bombay ... ... ... Madras ... ... ... Bihar and Orissa ... U.P. ... ... ... Sind ... ... ... Assam ... ... ... Bengal ... ... ... C.P. ... ... ... Punjab ... ... ... ... Hyderabad ... ... ... Ajmer ... ... ... Foreign ... ... ... Total ... | Rs. 4,94,000 26,90,381 5,05,000 5,65,000 3,11,200 1,13,000 51,080 50,000 47,000 45,000 40,000 25,000 14,000 | 227,238,000 16,012,623 42,319,000 33,820,000 45,376,000 3,279,377 6,735,000 46,241,000 12,780,000 20,675,000 — — — | — 8 18 15 20 3 20 5 9 — — — | 10 54.3 10.1 11.3 6.26 2.2 1.1 1.0 .95 .9 .81 .5 .28 |
| 49,50,661 |
*Excluding Burma and Native States.
†These figures are taken from the Simon Commission Report, Vol. I and refer to the year 1921.