996 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(b) Did he make any attempt to find a suitable Muslim ?
(c) Has the Honourable Member decided to fill up all the posts of officers in the Administrative side of the Central Public Works Department by Hindus and members of the Scheduled Caste ? If not, what steps has he taken to find out suitable officer to fill up the post of Administrative Officer ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) No. Does not arise.
(b) Does not arise.
(c) No decision has been reached. The question of filling the post is under consideration.
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*** Employment of Unemployed Women** in Coal Mines
- Prof. N. G. Ranga : Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state :
(a) whether any efforts are made and if so, what they are to provide alternate employment to those women who had been working in coal mines and who are unemployed since the 1st February,
(b) why Government allow employers to utilise the services of contractors to provide some work for some of those unemployed women,
(c) the wages paid to these women by Contractors, and
(d) why Government refuse to continue the grant to their families on the account of these women, of the additional half a seer of free rice, half a seer of free milk and concessions in purchasing rice and dal, in view of the fact that male members of their families are working in the mines ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Attention of the Honourable Member is invited to the answer given in reply to part (b) of starred question No. 466, on the 25th February 1946.
(b) Contractors are employed for building, sand loading and unloading, brick making, etc., and some women excluded from the
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1946. 15th March 1946, p. 2458.