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chance (grace chance), in the Government of India Press, New Delhi, were given to understand that if they would succeeded in examination they would remain junior to all qualified men who passed in the first and second chances ;
(b) whether the existing rule was in force in the month of May,
1942, when the examination was held in the Government of India Press, New Delhi ; and
(c) whether the rule regarding the promotion of qualified Copyholders and Readers is going to be amended very shortly in such a way that those men who passed the examination in the third chance are now going to be declared senior to all ; if so, why ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) The attention of the Honourable Member is invited to the reply given to parts (d) and (f) of Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi’s starred question No. 231 and part (c) of Mr. Muhammad Hussain Choudhury’s question No. 501.
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*** High-handedness of Landlords in Delhi**
- Mr. Kailash Biliari Lall : Will the Honourable Member for Labour be pleased to state :
(a) if the attention of Government has been drawn to the article published in the Hindi weekly named Vaishya Samachar of Delhi under the heading “Delhi me Makandaron ki Nadirshahi” in its issue of the 12th March, 1944 ;
(b) if Government have ascertained that actually influential and rich houseowners, resort to such tyrannies as have been described in the article, in question, in alliance with the police officers ;
(c) if it is a fact, that, as stated in the paper, the house rent in the Maliwars Mohalla in Old Delhi has gone so high as from Rs. 9 to Rs. 21/4/-;
(d) if Government propose to get the allegations described in the paper equired into, and to take suitable steps to stop the high handedness of the manner alleged with regard to the question of house rent in Old Delhi; and
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1944, 27th March 1944, pp. 1571-72.