1048 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(iii) Those classed as inferior will draw pension up to the limit of half average pay.
Government also propose to appoint an Officer on special duty to report on the anomalies existing in the pay and conditions of service of the various categories of pressworkers in the different Government of India Presses,
(d) 775 industrial workers were involved.
(e) Yes, to the Government of India Forms Press, Aligarh, the employees of which are on strike from the 15th March, 1946. The industrial workers of the Government of India Press, Calcutta and Forms Press, Calcutta, also gave notice of a strike but it has not yet been resorted to.
(f) Government have no information other than what has appeared in the Press. The Press in question is under the Provincial Government.
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*** Requisitioning of Residential Property in** New Delhi
1530. Diwan Chaman Lall : (a) In view of the War Department’s declared intention to proceed as fast as possible with the de-requisitioning of private residential properly as stated in this House in the reply to starred question No. 924 en the 13lh March, 1946, will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state whether the Labour Department intend to refrain likewise from requisitioning any more private residential property in New Delhi for accommodating the officers of the Central Government ?
(b) Do Government still intend to take possession in New Delhi of any residential property (for example No. 4, Ratendone Road) which was previously requisitioned by Government but which was not actually taken over by them? What are the reasons, if any, why it is still considered necessary to obtain possession of such requisitioned property ?
(c) In view of the general de-requisitioning programme, have Government considered the advisability of allowing the existing tenants of the residential accommodation referred to in part (b) above to
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central) Vol. V of 1946 3rd April 1046 p. 3445.