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to devise some other means of providing employment to these women ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I hope we shall be able to deal with that matter.
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : Will the Honourable Member consider the question of submitting this to the Coal Commission that is about to tour India ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not know that I can do so. I can bring the matter to the notice of the Department concerned.
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*** Ban on Contractors Related to Officers of** C.P.W.D.
- Shri Satya Narayan Sinha : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state if it is a fact that in the Central Public Works Department, orders have been issued that contracts for works should not be awarded to any contractor who is a close relative of any officer employed in the Department ?
(b) Is it a fact that near relatives include cousins, brother-inlaw, etc. and that officer includes for the purpose of this order Head Clerks, clerks, draftsmen, surveyors, etc. ?
(c) Why was the order issued, and how many contractors have been put out of the list as a result of this order ?
(d) Docs any such rule exist in the working of Public Works Departments in provinces or other countries or in Departments like Military Engineering Service, Railways, Municipal or District Boards in India ?
(e) Was the order issued under directions of the Government of India or by the Chief Engineer, Central P.W.D. on his own initiative ?
(f) In view of the obvious hardship on persons being penalised for the sin of being related to others working in the Department, do Government propose to reconsider the order and withdraw it ? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1946, 21st March 1946, p. 2700.