THE WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION INSURANCE) BILL 93
Not much explanation is necessary in support of this amendment. As the House will recall, the clause as it stands makes the Bill exclude Government employees and railway servants from the application of this Bill. When I moved the first reading of the Bill I told the House that although this Bill did not apply to this category of workmen, Government had made ample provision to pay compensation to their own servants. Unfortunately my speech evidently did not carry conviction to some Members of the House, and they still persisted that instead of taking responsibility in an administrative manner, responsibility should be imposed by statute. Sir, I have thought it fit to accept the suggestion made and therefore I shall be at a later stage moving the amendment which stands in my name to clause 3. Sir, I move.
Mr. President (The Honourable Sir Abdur Rahim): Amendment moved:
“ That sub-clause (2) of clause 6 of the Bill be omitted.”
- Mr. President (The Honourable Sir Abdur Rahim) : The question is:
“ That clause 6, as amended, stand part of the Bill.”
The motion was adopted.
Clause 6, as amended, was added to the Bill.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“ That to part (g) of sub-clause (5) of clause 7 of the Bill the following further proviso be added :
‘ Provided further that the rate of any periodic payment after the first shall not be higher than the rate estimated to raise the amount in the Fund after repayment of the advances, if any, paid into the Fund by the Central Government under sub-section ( 2 ) of section 11, to a sum of rupees fifteen lakhs ’ .”
This Proviso is again intended to meet the fears of some of the Members representing the class of employers. It was feared by them that we might use the provisions of this clause as it stood originally to raise any amount of fund and to build it up when it was practically not necessary for the purpose for which that was intended. I had originally given an assurance on the floor of the House that it was not the intention of Government to use powers which they have got under this Bill to raise unnecessary fund to build it up and thereby inflict
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III, 13th August 1943, p. 712.