L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 657
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) In order to improve the supply of filtered water, five additional filters were installed this summer, and two large pumping sets have been ordered from England and are expected in India in October. The scarcity of unfiltered water was due to a sudden fall in the level of the Jumna. In order to raise the level of the water, a series of bunds was put up across the channel. The situation has since improved and there is now no shortage.
(a) Experiments for training the river so as to divert its dry weather channel along the right bank, on which the pumping station is situated, are being conducted at the Central Hydrodynamic Research Station, Poona. A committee of experts recently appointed to investigate the matter have submitted their report which is being examined.
(b) No arrangements for cooling the water are feasible.
Mr. Lalchand Navalrai : Why is it not feasible ? Is it because it is too cold here ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The Honourable Member is entitled to draw his own conclusions.
Mr. Lalchand Navalrai : Is it unusually cold here ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I leave my Honourable friend to draw his own conclusions.
Pandit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra : Why don’t you utilise the Defence of India Act for this purpose.
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- Muslim Assistant Estate Officers in Central Public Works Department
- Mr. Nabi Baksh Mahi Baksh Bhutto : (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour be pleased to state the number of Assistant Estate Officers in the Central Public Works Department ?
(b) How many of them are Musalmans ?
(c) Is the ratio of Muslims maintained ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Four ; one post being vacant at present.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1943, 28th July 1943, p. 139.