1066 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Why was not the house released earlier when nobody was prepared to occupy it ?
(e) What is the approximate date when Government would release the house ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) The house was allotted to an officer on 15th September, 1945, but as he did not occupy it, it has been lying vacant ever since that date. Government are paying rent for the period the house has been lying vacant.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Yes. The latter part of the question does not arise in view of the answer given to part (c) of the question.
(e) About the 15th April 1946.
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*** Application of National Labour Tribunal** Ordinance to Officers of Merchant Navy
1757. Miss Maniben Kara : Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state :
(a) Whether the National Labour Tribunal Ordinance made applicable to certified officers on ships of Indian Registry in December, 1944, was an emergency measure;
(b) whether Government consider that the same emergency still continues to exist; if so, for what reasons; and
(c) whether in view of the restriction on the liberties of seamen that the Ordinance imposes, Government propose to revoke it at an early date, at least as far as the officers of the Merchant Navy are concerned ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) The provisions of the National service (Technical Personnel) Ordinance 1940, have been generally relaxed since February 1946, and they are not being used to take technical personnel into the national service. Control over the movement of technical personnel has also
*Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 12th April 1946, p. 3887.