774 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(b) Is it also a fact that a new post of Assistant Controller, Stationery, has been recently sanctioned and has not yet been filled up ? If so, does the Honourable Member propose to reserve it for a Muslim ? If not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The answer to the second part is that the post would be filled according to the communal representation rules.
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*** Desirability of Posting a Technical Officer** to the Office of Controller of Printing and Stationery
- Mr. Muhammad Nauman : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please say:
(a) whether it is a fact that the work in the Government of India Presses is of a technical nature;
(b) Whether it is also a fact that none of the officers at the headquarters’ office of the Controller of Printing and Stationery is an officer drawn from the technical side; and
(c) if the replies to parts (a) and (b) are in the affirmative, whether he proposes to consider the desirability of posting a technical officer to the Controller’s Office ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes, mostly.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, because detailed technical supervision and scrutiny of printing work is not necessary in his office.
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@ Government Contribution to Indian Labour Federation
- Mr. Lalchand Navalrai: (a) Will the Honourable Member for Labour be pleased to state whether it is a fact that his Department makes
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1944, 4th April 1944, p. 1915.
@ Ibid., pp. 1915-16.