594 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Babu Baijnath Bajoria : What objection can the Government have to appoint an advisory committee consisting of representatives of mincowners and factories ? That will strengthen their hands and that of the Mica Mission for purchasing the requirements of Mica.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The answer as stated in part (e) is that the Mica Mission does fix the price after consultation with the representatives of the Mica industry.
Babu Baijnath Bajoria : I do not think that is correct.
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*** Irregularities in Payment of Wages** to Railway Staff
- Mr. Lalchand Navalrai : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state when the Payment of Wages Act, IV of 1936, was made applicable to the Railways in India,
(b) Is it a fact that several irregularities in the payment to staff have been noticed by the Labour Inspectors ?
(c) Is it a fact that the Conciliation Officer (Railways) and the Supervisor of Railway Labour, who is the Inspector under the Act, generally tries to report these irregularities to the administrations concerned for relief, if any could be given ?
(d) Is it not a fact that in several cases of late payments, etc., relief can be given lo the affected employees when once the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act have been violated ? Arc prosecutions launched in such cases to act as a deterrent ? If not, why not ?
(e) Have any prosecutions been launched against the Railway Paymasters or the administration ? If so, does the Honourable Member propose to lay a statement of such cases on the table of the House ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) 28th March,
(b) Yes.
(c) The irregularities detected are brought to the notice of the Railway Administration for rectification.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 16th February 1943, p. 285.