758 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I want notice.
Dr. Sir Zia Uddin Ahmad : Are the Government aware of this fact that these experts who are associated with Engineering Colleges do not consider themselves to belong to the staff of the Engineering College and they do not consider that they are subject to the discipline to which members of the staff are subjected; are the Government aware of the fact that they spend a good deal of time in inspecting other institutions and they consider the teaching job to be unattractive, and they have no heart in their teaching work ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I will enquire into what my Honourable friend has said.
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*** Strike in the Government of India Press**
- Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi: (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state if it is or it is not a fact that as a result of great discontent among the employees of the Government Press, a strike took place on the 1st December,
1942, which was pacified by the visits of the Labour Secretary and the Labour Welfare Officer, to whom the major grievances were given by the workers ?
(b) What has been done by Government to remove their grievances especially about the following :
(i) the grant of dearness allowance to the Press employees on the lines of Railway rates;
(ii) the grant of casual leave to all the industrial employees;
(iii) the levy of a uniform rate of five per cent house-rent on all the employees, irrespective of their date of occupation of Press quarters;
(iv) the revision of the numerous existing grades of pay of the employees of the Binding Branch into one time-scale of pay, so as to afford a living wage; and
(v) the grant of at least old scales of pay to all the employees of the Press ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1944, 25th February 1944, p. 546.