L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1055
Honourable Member appoint a non-official auditor to look into the accounts of this amount ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not think it is necessary to do so. The matter will come before the Public Accounts Committee which is the committee appointed by this House.
Diwan Chaman Lall : .......... May I ask why has the Honourable Member delayed placing this matter before the Public Accounts Committee....
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It has not been delayed.
Diwan Chaman Lall : ........... considering that this expenditure ceased last year?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It has not been delayed. It has been put before the Public Accounts Committee.
Diwan Chaman Lall : Why has it not been put before it so far ?
Mr. President : Next question.
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*** Junior Readers in Government Presses**
- Hajee Chowdhury Mohammad Ismail Khan : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state the basis on which officiating Junior Readers are confirmed in the permanent posts of Junior Readers, in all the Government of India Presses ?
(b) Is it a fact that the nature of the duties and the cadre of Copyholders are quite different from those of Junior Readers ?
(c) Is it a fact that some officiating Junior Readers who entered the Junior Reader’s grade earlier, have been declared junior in the Junior Reader’s grade to some of the copyholders who failed to qualify in the Readership Examination in which they appeared along with the former in any Government of India Press ?
(d) Is it a fact that the order by which the qualified copyholders are once allowed to work in the Junior Reader’s posts can be altered if they continue to maintain their efficiency to the utmost satisfaction ?
(e) Do Government propose to consider the desirability of giving preference in the permanent posts of Junior Readers, to those qualified Copyholders who have more length of total service as officiating Junior Readers at their credit ?
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 8th April 1946, pp. 3649-50.