824 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Prescribing Set Form of Receipt for Rent under** Delhi Rent Control Ordinance
625. Mr. Kailash Bihari Lall : Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state if the Government propose to prescribe a set form of receipt to be compulsorily granted by the landlord to the tenants under the Delhi Rent Control Ordinance, 1944 ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Government have the matter under examination.
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@ Increase in Cost of Living in Certain Cities
- Mr. Badri Dutt Pande : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state:
(a) if it is a fact that the living index has shown an increase in the cost of living by 182 per cent in certain cities; if not, what the fact is;
(b) if it is a fact that the wages of Railway servants working in those cities have not been raised by 182 per cent; if not, what the correct fact is; and
(c) if the Government propose to increase the wages of the employees in those cities where the cost of living has arisen by 182 per cent accordingly; if not, why not;
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Government are aware that the published cost of living indexes have risen in some towns by 182 or more over the index of August, 1939.
(b) The answer to the first part is in the affirmative. In regard to the second, Railway workers are compensated for increased cost of living by relief in cash and concessions in kind which together are considered adequate to meet the needs and are adjusted from time to time as the situation demands.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1944, 20th November 1944, p. 1027.
@ Ibid. p. 1038.