L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 739
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*** Disparity between Unorthodox and Orthodox**
Quarters in New Delhi
- Sardar Sant Singh : Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state :
(a) whether the plinth and ground area, including outhouses and garden, is much larger in the case of unorthodox clerks’ quarters than in the corresponding type of orthodox clerks’ quarters (especially in the Minto Road Area), so much so that, while the tenants of unorthodox quarters raise a good crop of vegetables, lay flower beds, rear poultry, can keep milch, cattle and have badminton or tennis ground, there is not enough open space in orthodox quarters even to lay charpois for an average family during summer, and that the roofs of the “D” and “E” orthodox types are so low that they become heated very quickly during summer and cannot be occupied;
(b) whether the quality of materials, viz., timber, bolts, etc., used in the construction of an unorthodox quarter and the furniture supplied therein are much superior to those used in the orthodox type of quarters, the workmanship also being superior;
(c) whether the following special amenities and fittings provided in unorthodox quarters are absent in orthodox quarters :—
(i) gardens and shrubs,
(ii) servants’ quarters,
(iii) iron grates in fireplaces,
(iv) wall almirahs,
(v) fittings for curtains and rings for hanging chicks,
(vi) wash basin in bath rooms,
(vii) unfiltered water connection in compound, and
(viii) Venetian window shutters in the “D” and “E” orthodox quarters;
(d) whether no cattle sheds are allowed to be constructed in orthodox quarters below the category “B” while they are allowed in unorthodox quarters;
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1944, 17th March 1944, pp. 1217-18.