L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 687
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- Constructing a Large Hotel for Indian Clerks in New Delhi
@ 145. Sardar Sant Singh : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state whether Government have considered the advisability of constructing a large several storeyed building in New Delhi in the form of a big hotel in order to provide lodging and boarding facilities for Indian clerks who are otherwise put to considerable difficulties in obtaining these at present ?
(b) Is it a fact that many buildings have been constructed for the accommodation of European single non-Commissioned Officers, etc., and that these are being run as hostels ?
(c) Are Government prepared to provide similar facilities for the Indian single clerks ? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Government are considering the possibility of erecting a hostel for clerks.
(b) Yes.
(c) Government have already provided chummries of Orthodox and Un-orthodox types for Indian single clerks and they are considering whether there will be an adequate demand to justify the erection of a hostel.
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† Delay in Attending to the Complaints Made to Minto Road and Havelock Square Enquiry Offices, New Delhi
@ 147. Sardar Sant Singh : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state whether Government are aware that complaints made to the Enquiry Offices at Minto Road and Havelock Square regarding repairs, etc., to orthodox clerks quarters in those neighbourhoods are attended to generally after considerable delay ?
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1943, 13th November 1943, pp. 242-43.
† Ibid., pp. 243-44.
@ Answer to this question laid on the table, the questioner being absent.