638 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(b) Is it a fact that some of these converted rooms face the sun nearly the whole day ?
(c) Is it a fact that such rooms as mentioned in part (b) have only ordinary glass panes to keep the sun out from them ?
(d) Is it a fact that some of these rooms are very narrow ?
(e) What is the width of the narrowest of such converted rooms which face the sun nearly the whole day ? What is the number of such rooms ?
(f) What was the temperature in these rooms in the day time, say, in the second fortnight of February, and in the first fortnight of March ? What was the temperature in these converted rooms (facing the sun) during the months of April, May, June, July and October 1942?
(g) Is it a fact that these rooms are just like burning ovens where the staff are roasted for the whole day ?
(h) Have these rooms ever been inspected by any Health Officer to see that they were fit for occupation during the summer ? If so, has his report been that they were fit for occupation ?
(i) if the answer to the latter part of (h) be in the affirmative, are Government prepared to consider the allotment of these rooms to gazetted officers of the various offices concerned and put the staff at present working in them in the rooms originally built for them ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (a) Yes.
(b) Some of these converted rooms, which face South, are exposed to sun in the afternoons.
(c) No. Such rooms are provided with curtains in addition to glass panes.
(d) No.
(e) The narrowest width of these converted rooms is 8 ft. 3 inches. The number of such rooms is 3.
(f) A statement containing the information asked for is laid on the table of the House.
(g) No.