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(b) (i) and (iii) As the questions affected all services, the requests of the Press employees for separate treatment have not been acceded to. I may add that it was decided on the representation of the Press Workers that dearness allowance should not be included in calculating the rent payable by occupants of Government residences.
(ii) and (iv) Both the questions are at present under consideration. Steps are being taken to expedite a decision on them.
(v) This is not the opportune time to undertake a general revision of scales of pay. Such a revision can only be undertaken after the war in the light of post-war conditions.
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*** Promotion of Qualified Copyholders and** Revisers as Readers in the Government of India Presses
- Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi : Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state :
(a) whether it is a fact that the case of amending the rule regarding the promotion of qualified copyholders and revisers as readers in the Government of India Presses, is pending consideration in the office of the Controller of Printing and Stationery, India, for more than 1 [1] / 2 years;
(b) whether it is a fact that the views of all the Government of India Presses, their Works Committees and Workers Unions, were invited by the Controller of Printing and Stationery on the subject;
(c) whether it is a fact that the Controller of Printing and Stationery also suggested to postpone the Readership Examination for an indefinite period, i.e. till all the qualified men on the waiting list were absorbed as readers permanently;
(d) whether it is a fact that some qualified copyholders and revisers with more than fifteen years’ service at credit have, according to the present rules, been rendered junior to those who have put in only four or five years’ service, though all qualified together in the same examination;
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1944, 25th February 1944, pp. 546-47.