L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 985
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*** Release of Personnel from** Government Departments
- Mr. Manu Subedar : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state the total number of men, temporary and permanent, who are to be released in 1946 from (i) the War Department, including Army, Navy and Air Force (ii) Railways, and (iii) other Departments of Government ?
(b) Is it a fact that some of them have put in exemplary service and are being now released ?
(c) What steps are Government taking for getting them reabsorbed in other Departments ?
(d) What special works do Government propose to set up for getting these men re-absorbed ?
(e) Is it a fact that, simultaneously while Indians from various services are being thrown out of work, Britishers are being recruited for other services ?
(f) Have Government considered the desirability of stopping such recruitment and taking Indians by giving them an opportunity to adapt themselves for other work for which fresh recruitment is started ?
(g) 70 per cent of posts ordinarily filled by direct recruitment occuring in Central Government and in the various Provincial Governments, and what is the machinery devised by Government to make necessary arrangements ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) The information is not readily available. It is being collected and will be laid on the table in due course.
(b) Yes.
(c) Instructions have been issued requiring Departments to arrange for the registration at Employment Exchange of discharged personnel and directing them to fill vacancies as far as possible through Employment Exchanges.
(d) Central and Provincial Governments are embarking on schemes selected out of the five-year plans with the special object of
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1946, 6th March 1946, p. 1972.