622 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
to award contracts for emergency works by private negotiations without calling for tenders ?
(b) What is the total value of contracts awarded by private negotiations during the calendar year 1942 ?
(c) What is the total value of such contracts awarded by private negotiations to Muslim contractors ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The information asked for by the Honourable Member is being collected and will be laid on the table in due course.
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*** Grievances of the Staff of the Binding** Department of the Government of India Press, New Delhi
- Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state if it is a fact that as the annual increment is not given to the people of the Binding Department of the Government of India Press, New Delhi, they wish to go to other Departments when vacancies fall vacant there, but their applications are not forwarded ?
(b) Is it or is it not a fact that some people were given a trial in which they were successful, but they have not been provided with a situation until now ?
(c) Is it or is it not a fact that many a time the Manager has been asked that until the annual increment is enforced in the Binding Department, those who are already working in that Department should be given a chance and situations should be provided for successful candidates in preference to outsiders, but the Manager did not heed these requests ?
(d) Are Government prepared to take the successful candidates in the ‘Distributory’ section so that those who have passed the test may not suffer?
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1943, 20th March 1943, p. 1269.