1056 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Confirmation is made according to seniority in the rank of copyholders except, in the case of men who have qualified in the reader’s examination in the third chance for whom certain reservations have been made.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes, unless the junior copyholder is confirmed earlier.
(e) No. The present rules have been framed after full consideration.
- Hajee Chowdhury Mohammad Ismail Khan : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state whether the scale of pay of the New Scale Junior Readers is Rs. 55-3-85 and that or Copyholders Rs. 45-4-60-EB-5-80 (in the ‘C grade of the United Scale), in the Government of India Press, New Delhi ?
(b) Is it also a fact that anomalies still exist between the pay of Junior Readers and that of Copyholders because a permanent Junior Reader with four or five year’s service as such at his credit is getting Rs. 64 per month only, whereas a temporary Copyholder, officiating as a Junior Reader would be getting Rs. 67 per month ?
(c) Is it a fact that the Manager of the said press had recommended ‘B’ grade, after a very careful consideration, to Junior Readers, which being the only alternative of removing the existing anomalies ?
(d) Does the Honourable Member propose to sanction ‘B’ grade of the unified scale for Junior Readers at an early date for the purpose of removing these anomalies? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) A permanent Junior reader on revised scale of pay is entitled to Rs. 64 p.m. after four years’ service and to Rs. 67 p.m. after five years’ service. In certain cases a temporary Copyholder in the unified scale, if appointed as reader is entitled lo Rs. 67 p.m.
(c) Yes.
(d) The unified scale is a temporary scale and was intended for the clerical staff of the Government of India. It was made specially applicable to the Copyholders and Junior Revisers of the Government of India Presses. The applicaiton of the ‘B’ Grade of the unified scale would create more anomalies and complications as there arc several grades of readers on different rates of pay in the various Government of India Presses.
Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 8th April 1946, p. 3650.