610 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There must be some temporary reason of which I am not at present aware.
Mr. Lalchand Navalrai: Is there a demand for more houses for clerks or officers, or not ? Or have you got a full complement ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I must have notice of that question.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad : Is it not a fact that Government had to provide so many tents for the accommodation of officers and other people ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: That is quite so.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad : This shows that sufficient number of houses are not available.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes.
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*** Improvements in the Combined “C” Type** Quarters in New Delhi
- Sardar Sant Singh : (a) With reference to the answer to part (f) of starred question No. 437, asked on the 18th March,
1940, will the Honourable the Labour Member please state what improvements in the combined “C” type orthodox quarters in New Delhi were asked for in the representations received by Government, either through Tenants’ Associations or from individual residents of such quarters ?
(b) What would have been the cost of all the additions and alterations asked for per quarter ?
(c) Have any additions or alterations been made in any clerks’ or officers’ quarters in New Delhi since the 18th March, 1940 ? If so, which are the different classes of quarters in which such additions, etc., have been made ?
(d) What was the amount of expenditure incurred on each different class of quarter so added to or altered ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) A statement containing the information is laid on the table of the House.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1943, 11th March 1943, p. 969.