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*Administrative Officers Promoted as Commissioned Officers in Civil Pioneer Force in Provinces
111. Mr. G. Rangiah Naidu : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state:
(a) the number of Administrative Officers promoted as Commissioned Officers in the Civil Pioneer Force in various Provinces in 1941, 1942 and 1943; if not, why not;
(b) if there is any subsequent law passed to restrict the Civil Pioneer Force Officers to apply for Commissioned Officers’ posts in the army;
(c) the number of Commissioned and Administrative Officers recruited from among the Hindus such as Non-Brahmins, Backward and Scheduled Communities, Christians, Mahomedans and AngloIndians;
(d) the rate of daily rations of the Pioneer and that of the Administrative Officers, separately; and
(e) how many clerks who were working in the Civil Pioneer Force Department, were promoted as Administrative Officers in 1941, 1942 and 1943; if not, why not?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a), (c) and (c) With regard to these parts, three statements giving the required information separately are placed on the table of the House.
These refer to 1942 and 1943; the Civil Pioneer Force had not been raised in 1941.
(b) No, but if an officer undertakes service in the Civil Pioneer Force he is under an obligation to serve in the force so long as his services are required— vide Civil Pioneer Force Ordinance, Section 9. At present no officer can be released.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1944, 16th February 1944, pp.
281-83.