602 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Desirability of Applying the Control of** Rent Act to the Notified Area, Shahdara and Delhi
211. Mr. Muhammad Azhar Ali : Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state :
(a) if it is a fact that most of the workers employed in the industrial, commercial and Government offices at Delhi reside within the Notified Area, Shahdara and Delhi.
(b) if it is a fact that the said workers are mostly low paid staff and are in greater number than the residents of the Notified Area, Civil Station, Delhi, and the newly expanded areas of Daryaganj and Karol Bagh, Delhi, where the Control of Rent Act applies;
(c) the reasons for not applying the Control of Rent Act to the Notified Area, Shahdara, Delhi ; and
(d) if Government propose to apply the Control of Rent Act to the residential buildings within the Notified Area, Shahdara and Delhi, if not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) and (b) I am prepared to take these facts from the Honourable Member.
(c) and (d) It is not administratively practicable to apply the New Delhi House Rent Control Order, 1939, to these areas, but the Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act has been extended to them.
Mr. Lalchand Navalrai: What are the reasons for not applying the New Delhi House Rent Control Order, 1939 ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Because one is more expeditious.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 2nd March 1943, p. 653.