L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 669
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- Representations Against the Appointment of One Bakshi Madan Singh in the Central Public Works Department
@ 211. Sardar Sant Singh : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state if it is a fact that one Bakshi Madan Singh was appointed as an Assistant in the Works Section, Central Public Works Department, against a vacancy reserved for ‘other minorities’ ?
(b) Was he asked at the lime of recruitment to produce a certificate as to the bonafides of his being a Sikh in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Home Department ? If not, why not ?
(c) Are Government aware that Bakshi Madan Singh has been “Petit” 3 or 4 times before he joined service, and that he kept hair to deceive the Government to get a job reserved for the Sikh Community ?
(d) Is it a fact that a number of representations were made to the Additional Chief Engineer and the administrative Officer by the local Sikh organisations and none of these has even been acknowledged so far?
(e) Do Government propose to replace this person by a bonafide Sikh?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) No. The Department had no doubts as to his bonafide at the time of his appointment.
(c) No. Government had no information to this effect.
(d) Yes. They are being acknowledged.
(e) Only, if it is established that he embraced Sikhism within a year of his application for employment, or being a Keshdhari had become patit before his employment.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1943, 2nd August 1943, pp. 426-27.
@ Answer to this question laid on the table, the questioner having exhausted his quota.