L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 859
(b) if the reply to the last portion of part (a) above is in the negative, whether the Honourable Member proposes to supply the following information in a tabular form for each Railway, separately, for the financial years
1941-42, 1942-43 and 1943-44 :—
(i) the amount of fines inflicted on the Railway staff;
(ii) the total number of cases in which fines were inflicted ;
(iii) the total number of irregularities detected in the working of the Payment of Wages Act;
(iv) the total number of irregularities detected in the working of the Hours of Employment Regularities ;
(v) the nature of instruction issued to the various Railway Administrations to avoid a repetition of such irregularities ;
(vi) the nature of representations made by the Labour Supervisor to the Labour Department of the Government of India on points where a conflict of opinion existed between the Supervisor and the Railway Administrations or the Board ; and
(vii) the decision given on points referred to in (vi) above ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Since the year
1940-41, annual reports on the working of the Payment of Wages Act and the Hours of Employment Regulations for the years 1941-42 and 1942-43 have been submitted by the Conciliation Officer (Railways) and Supervisor of Railway Labour. As I informed the Honourable Member in answer to his unstarred question No. 43 on the 10th February 1944, Government have decided not to publish these reports in view of the acute shortage of paper. They have, however, now decided to issue a press note in respect of the reports for the year 1942-43 as also in respect of future report until such time it is found possible to renew the previous practice of publishing them.
(b) Such information as is readily available is being complied and a statement will be laid on the table of the House in due course.