L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 743
(b) whether it is a fact that the views of all the Government of India Presses, their Works Committees and Workers’ Union which were invited, are also under examination;
(c) whether it is a fact that some qualified Copyholders who passed the Readership Examination in the year 1936, according to the present rules, have been superseded by those who qualified, after four years (in 1940); and
(d) whether it is a fact that these men who passed the examination at a sufficiently earlier date, were superseded by those who qualified after a long period ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes. Attention is invited to the reply given on the 25th February 1944, to Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi’s question No. 231.
(b) Yes.
(c) and (d). No. As the Rules in force till 1940 required requalifying, no supersession was involved.
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*** Transfer of Languages Section of Bureau of**
Public Information to Lahore
140. Mr. Muhammad Azhar Ali: (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state the area of the space allotted to the Languages Section (excluding officers) in Lahore, and the total strength of the staff accommodated therein ? Do Government consider this adequate for the efficiency of the staff ? Was not even this much space available in Delhi ?
(b) Are Government aware that the lavatory has been provided for the staff and the improvised urinal has no drainage arrangement ?
(c) What is the strength of the staff belonging to the Brureau of Public Information which has been transferred from Delhi to Lahore ? Of them how many were provided with quarters in Delhi, and how may in Lahore ? How many of them have so far surrendered their quarters in Lahore on grounds of inadequate accommodation ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) An area of 4,587 Sq. ft. was allotted to this office. The ministerial staff consist of 48 persons.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1944, 17th March 1944, p. 1227.