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(c) No. The Government have already considered this suggestion very carefully in the past and dropped it mainly on account of the excessive expenditure involved.
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*** Non-Promotion of Certain Qualified Executive** Engineers, etc., Working as Sub-Divisional Officers and Overseers
- Babu Ram Narayan Singh : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state whether he is aware that there is a shortage of Engineers for filling up the posts of Executive Engineers and Superintending Engineers in the Central Public Works Department both in the Buildings and Roads and in the Electrical Branches ?
(b) Is he aware that there are many foreign qualified and experienced Engineers working as Sub-Divisional Officers and even overseers who are not being promoted to hold Divisional charge or higher because they are yet junior to unqualified subordinate Sub-Divisional Officers and others ?
(c) Is he also aware that Government are sending students for overseas studies to make available foreign qualified hands to fill up higher appointments ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) There are some foreign qualified Engineers in the Central Public Works Department who have not yet been promoted to Divisional or higher charges, because they are either still junior to other qualified Engineers in the Department or are unfit for such promotion.
(c) Yes.
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@ Non-Promotion of Certain Qualified Executive Engineers, etc., Working as Sub-Divisional Officers and Overseers
- Babu Ram Narayan Singh : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please place on the table of the House a list of foreign
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1946, 29th March 1946, p. 3160.
@ Ibid., p. 3160.