L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 749
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*** Labour Adviser to the** Labour Department
@ 627. Mr. K. S. Gupta : (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state if the post of Labour Adviser to the Labour Department is a new creation ? If so, why is it created ?
(b) If it is an already existing post, who was the last incumbent, and on what salary ?
(c) Is it a fact that Mr. B. L. Waters has been appointed Labour adviser to the Labour Department of the Central Government ? What is his salary and overseas allowance and allowances, if any ?
(d) Is it a war measure that necessitated the appointment of Mr. Waters ? What was he drawing as salary in the British Ministry of Labour and National Service ?
(e) Has he any previous experience of Indian conditions ? If so, under what Head of the Government of India ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) and (b). The post of Labour Adviser was created in December 1942. It was held by Mr. D. T. Jack till June 1943 and is now held by Mr. B. L. Waters. Mr. Jack’s salary was Rs. 2,750 a month.
The Labour Adviser is to advise on all important matters of labour legislation and administration, and in particular the manner in which labour problems that are under consideration or which may arise, have been or are being dealt with in England.
(c) Yes. Mr. Waters draws a salary of Rs. 2,000 p.m. He is not paid any overseas of other monthly allowance.
(d) Yes. At the time of his appointment to his present post, Mr. Waters was drawing a salary of £880 in the scale of £850—30—1,000 per annum in the British Ministry of Labour and National Service.
(e) No, Sir.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1944, 27th March 1944, pp.
1559-60.
@ The question hour for today having been dispensed with, answers to these questions were, in pursuance of convention, laid on the table of the House. —Ed . of D.