586 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Department learning something of the work before them. Shortly they (and an eighth officer, who is expected to join soon) will be sent to various areas where it is hoped they will maintain contacts on behalf of the Central Government with Labour. Their duties will be, on the one hand, to keep the Central Government apprised of Labour conditions and feeling and particularly of grievances of Labour in different parts of India and, on the other, to explain to the workers the policy of the Central Government In Labour matters. They can also help to secure the co-operation of the workers in bringing A.R.P. arrangements to the highest pitch of efficiency.
The work of these officers will, it is hoped, bring the Central Government into closer touch with such Labour aspects as concern them (Labour is of course largely a provincial subject) and will help in the development of one of the main planks In Government’s policy....... that is tripartite collaboration between employer, employee and Government. We held our first tripartite conference last August — the Standing Committee of that conference will meet in December and we hope that these meetings will be held frequently in the future and lead to a well developed Labour policy throughout this country.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad: With reference to part (c) of the question, may I ask whether the Government are contemplating to introduce any legislation on this point ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, Sir.
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*** Communal Composition of the** Engineering Service in the Central Public Works Department
100. Maulvi Muhammad Abdul Ghani : Will the Honourable member for Labour please state :
(a) the number of officers of the Engineering service selected and appointed in the Central Public Works Department from the Public Works Department of every province during the last 3 years with their nationalities and creed ;
(b) the criterion, if any, for such selection and appointments ;
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 16th February 1943, p. 279.