1060 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad: Our opinion is that the entire Department is very inefficient. As regards the other lists of appointments that he has for posts of Executive Engineer, there is not a single Muslim.
Mr. President: Order, order. Will the Honourable Member put his question ?
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad: I am putting this question. Is it not a fact that in the list now prepared, there is not a single appointment for Muslims ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : How does my Honourable friend know it ? The list has not come to me.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad : The outcome is that not a single man is a Muslim.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not understand how my Honourable friend can make that statement. The Government has taken no action.
Mr. President : Order, order.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad : Can the Honourable Member deny that there is not a single Muhammadan in the list which he has prepared for Superintending Engineer?
The Honorable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : As I said, I have not the list. The file has not been sent to me. My Honourable friend will have to wait until the Department has taken action before he criticizes.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad: Then it will be too late.
Mr. President : Order, order.
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : Is the Honourable Member prepared to agree that the percentage of Muslims in these appointments of Superintending Engineers and others falls far below the 25 per cent. reserved quota for Mussalmans under G. R. Home Department of
1934, and if so is the Honourable member going to take steps to maintain the quota?
Mr. President: Has not the Honourable Member already answered that?
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : No. Sir.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The figures are so obvious.
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : It means that the Honourable Member agrees that the Muslim quota is far below the 25 per cent. May I ask