1064 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Deposits of Thorium**
- Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : Will the Honourable the Labour member be pleased to state if deposits of thorium which is used for the manufacture of atomic energy have been discovered in many parts of India ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The Honourable Member’s attention is invited to the reply given in this House to starred question No. 1276, on 26th March, 1946.
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer: Is it a fact that considerable deposits of thorium have been found in the Travancore State, and, if so, have Government taken any steps to control this in the matter of disposal ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: It is in an Indian State and the Government of India have no right to interfere in that.
- Sardar Mangal Singh : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state :
(a) the number of refrigerators purchased by Government for installations at the residential buildings at Delhi and New Delhi;
(b) the terms and conditions on which they are let on hire to the tenants of those buildings ;
(c) the particulars of officials of the Estate Office and Public Works Department, who are provided with the temporarily and permanently;
(d) whether they are not available for the use of the Honourable Members of the central Legislature during their occupation of those buildings of official duty in connection with Sessions and committees;
(e) if it is a fact that most of the staff of the office and department not in occupation of those buildings are provided with them ; and
(f) if Government propose to make them available for use of the Honourable members of the Central Legislature by withdrawing them from the staff of that office and of that department; if not, why not ?
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 12th April 1946, p. 3873.