590 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Plan for Providing Against Mass—** Unemployment of Indian Labour
@ 103. Mr. Govind V. Deshmukh : Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state if he has planned any scheme to provide against mass unemployment of Indian Labour so that it may enjoy freedom from want of necessaries of life ? If so, what ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : No formal scheme to provide against mass unemployment has been planned.
In War time the scope for employment has increased enormously. As regards post-war conditions, the Reconstruction Committee appointed in the Commerce Department will devote attention to them.
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† Monopoly of Export of Mica to the Joint Mica Mission and Metal Reserve Company of the United States of America
- Babu Baijnath Bajoria : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state if it is a fact that when the Joint Mica Mission assumed control of export of Mica from this country, they gave an undertaking to the Government of India that they would purchase the entire production of Indian Mica ?
(b) If the answer to the part (a) be in the affirmative, what steps are Government taking for the implementing of this undertaking ?
(c) Is the Honourable Member aware that the Joint Mica Mission is purchasing only scheduled qualities of Mica and refuses to purchase other qualities, e.g. lower grade splittings and Block Mica, and many a time refuses to purchase even certain scheduled qualities, which has resulted in large stocks of these qualities remaining unsold in the hands of Indian merchants ?
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 16th February 1943, p. 281.
@ Answer to this question laid on the table, the questioner being absent.
† Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 16th February 1943, pp.
282-83.