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(c) on whose report or request an adjudicator under Rule 81 of the Defence of India Act Rules is to be appointed ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) The Honourable Member is presumably referring to rule 81A of the Defence of India Rules. There are no rules governing the proceedings before an adjudicator.
(b) No qualifications have been prescribed and it is not possible to do so because action under Rule 81A is of an urgent nature and it is not always possible readily to obtain persons of any particular qualifications in different parts of the country. The general rule is to appoint the most suitable person available in all circumstances of the case. Persons so far appointed include High Court Judges, District and Sessions Judges, Chief Presidency Magistrates, Labour Commissioners and their Assistants, Workmen Compensation Commissioners and War Injuries Claims Officers.
(c) An adjudicator may be appointed at the request of either or both the parties, or on the initiative of Government.
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*** Results of Propaganda by Indian Labour** Federation
- Mr. Badri Dutt Pande : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state the results achieved from the propaganda by the Federation of Labour from the subsidy of Rs. 13,000 a month ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I would refer the Honourable Member to the reply given by me on the 7th November
1944 to part (c) of Prof. Ranga’s starred question No. 152.
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@ Appointment of Committee of Enquiry re Mica Industry of India
Mr. Satya Narayan Sinha : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state if it is a fact that a Committee of Enquiry by the Central Government regarding Mica Industry of Bihar has been appointed or is going to be appointed.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1944, 20th November 1944, p. 1040.
@ Ibid., p. 1041.