576 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(e) If the number of Muslims in employ is not commensurate with the ratio laid down by the Government circular, why has no attempt been made to rectify things ?
(f) Is it a fact that some junior Hindu clerks with minimum educational qualifications and meagre office experience were promoted to the cadre of Assistants in the Central Stationery Office during the year, thereby superseding the claims of senior Muslim clerks ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a), (b), (c) and (d). A statement containing the required information is laid on the table.
(e) The Government circular applies to direct recruitment and is being followed. No question of rectification arises.
(f) No. As posts of Assistants are filled by selection on merit the question of supersession of senior men does not arise.
Statement showing the Number of Assistants and Clerks employed the proportion of Muslims in those categories and the Number of posts of Assistants created owing to war in the Central Stationery Office, the Central Forms Store and the Calcutta Press.
(a) Two Superintendents and ten Head Assistants. None of them is a Muslim.
(b) and (c).
Proportion Assistants No. of Muslims per cent Central Stationery Office … 31 9.7
Central Forms Store … 13 7.7
Calcutta Press … 5 Nil
Clerks—
Central Stationery Officer … 329 19.1
Central Forms Store 166 21.1
Calcutta Press 49 20.4
(d) Assistants’ post created No. of as a result of the war Muslims
Central Stationery Office … 13 of which 11 filled 1
Central Forms Store … 9 (none yet filled) …
Calcutta Press … Nil Nil
Note. —Figures given against the Central Stationery Office include the number of Assistants and clerks employed in the Stationery Store Branch to which the communal orders were applied from the 18th June, 1942.