L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 993
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*** Certain Promotions of Junior Readers in** Government of India Presses
- Hajee Chowdhury Mohammad Ismail Khan : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state the basis on which Junior Readers in all the Government of India Presses are promoted to the post of Senior Readers ?
(b) Is it a fact that certain departmental employees who passed the Readership Examination at an earlier date and entered the Junior Reader’s grade earlier have been superseded not only in the Junior Reader’s grade but also in the Senior Reader’s grade, by those who entered the Junior Reader’s grade later, in any of the Government of India Presses ?
(c) Is it also a fact that certain qualified Copyholders who have greater length of total service as Junior Readers at their credit, have been declared Junior in the Junior Reader’s grade, to those who have lesser length of total service as Junior Readers and who failed to qualify in the Readership Examination in which they appeared along with the former?
(d) Is it a fact that Copyholders who have put in greater length of total service in copyholder’s posts have been treated as Senior ?
(e) Does the Honourable Member propose to consider the desirability of filling up Senior Reader’s posts on the basis of total length of service in the Junior Reader’s grade ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Except for the post of Head Reader which has been declared a “selection post”, the basis for the promotion of Readers from one grade to another is seniority cum fitness.
(b) and (c) Yes, in those cases where Senior Copyholders qualified in the readers’ examination before the confirmation as reader of their juniors who qualified earlier. The examination being a qualifying one, it is the length of service and not the date of passing the examination that determines seniority for the purpose of appointment as readers.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1946, 12th March 1946, p.2240.