690 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(ii) that coolies and labourers use these passages regularly, and cross the lawns at different places with the result that the lawns in these two squares are disfigured by foot tracks ?
(e) Are Government prepared to have these passages closed and grass relaid on these tracks ? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) and (b) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Government will examine the suggestion.
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- Growing of More Vegetables in Orthodox Quarters in New Delhi
@ 150. Sardar Sant Singh : (a) With reference to the general appeal of Government to grow more food and vegetables, will the Honourable Member for Labour please state whether the Government of India staff living in New Delhi at orthodox type of quarters can grow vegetables in large quantities ?
(b) Is it a fact that the courtyards of D-type particularly, and of E, C and B-type orthodox quarters generally, are very small in size, and cannot be used to produce any large quantity of vegetables, etc. ?
(c) Are Government prepared to allot some extra land outside their quarters to such members of their orthodox staff who may ask for it for the purpose of growing vegetables, etc., and to have such land duly enclosed ? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Vegetables may be grown in small quantities for the domestic consumption of the staff occupying these quarters.
(b) Yes.
(c) No. The proposal if accepted would soon result in destruction of lawns. Fencing is expensive and cannot be provided by Government, and it is unlikely that the staff living in these quarters will be able to make adequate use of such extra land.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1943, 13th November 1943, p. 245.
@ Answer to this question laid on the table, the questioner being absent.