902 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Hours of Work for Employees of Government of** India Press, Calcutta
- Mr. Abdul Qaiyum : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state :
(a) the total number of hours of work per week for the employees of the Government of India Press, Calcutta;
(b) whether the Bengal Government have reduced the hours of work of the Bengal Government Presses to forty hours per week within a bonus ; and
(c) whether Government propose to reduce the hours in their Presses : if not, why not ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) 48.
(b) The hours have been reduced to 40 per week but no bonus has been granted.
(c) No reduction can be contemplated during the present emergency.
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@ Revision of Scale of Pay of Employees of Government of India Press, Calcutta
- Mr. Abdul Qaiyum : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state :
(a) whether the dearness allowance granted to the Press employees corresponds to the abnormal rise in the cost of living ;
(b) when the last revision of pay of the Press employees of Calcutta took place ;
(c) whether the Government Press employees in Calcutta have to pay more for rationed and non-rationed articles than the Railway and other employees ; and
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1945, 26th March 1945, p. 2010.
@ Ibid. p. 2010.