606 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
the rents of 1940 were fair rents to take as basic rents under the Rent Control Order.
(b) Yes.
(c) Landlords are not suffering financially from the restrictions imposed upon them by Government but they are prevented from making more than reasonable profit on their properties.
(d) No ; the Rent Control Order is an emergency measure designed to expedite decision regarding rents of houses. If Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act is enforced instead, the tenants will have to seek redress in the Civil Courts which will not only be expensive but will take a long time to arrive at a decision.
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*** Allotment of Central Government Employees’** Quarters to Staff of Local Schools, etc.
@ 234. Mr. Muhammad Azhar Ali : (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state if he is aware of the fact that the Public Works Department quarters specially built for the Central Government employees are allotted to the staff of the local schools and courts in preference to the Central Government servants of certain Departments ?
(b) Is he aware that the purely temporary staff of the so-called “entitled offices” is given preference over the permanent staff of other offices who are drawing higher salaries notwithstanding the loss of revenue to Government ?
(c) Is it a fact that sister offices of the same Department are treated differently ?
(d) Is it a fact that the Railway clearing Accounts Office was treated as non-entitled but that decision has since been changed ?
(c) Does the Honourable Member propose to review the position and take steps to treat all the Central Government offices alike ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) These quarters are meant for employees of the Central Government and of the Local
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1943, 2nd March 1943, p. 663.
@ Answer to this question laid on the table, the questioner having exhausted his quota.