918 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(b) whether protests have reached the Government regarding non-application of the provisions of sections
(5) and (6) of the Essential Services (Maintenance) Ordinance II of 1941, in regard to obligation of the Crown not to discontinue the services of the Crown servants without a reasonable cause, and the issue of rules regulating or empowering a specified authority to regulate their wages and other conditions of service ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) No.
Mr. N. M. Joshi : May I ask why Government have not taken steps that are necessary to be taken under the Essential Services Act ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : My Honourable friend’s question was whether protests were received.
- Mr. T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar : Item 3 in the ...............
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Labour Member) : I am sorry I was not here to listen to the points raised by my Honourable friend, Mr. Avinashilingam Chettiar. But I should like to tell him that these quarters are permanent.
Mr. T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar : All of them ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, and the necessity that forced us to undertake this construction......
Mr. T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar : I know that. I know my Honourable friend can give a lecture on that.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I think it is a great advantage that in the midst of so much money which is being spent on building temporary structures, we have succeeded in securing at least these quarters as permanent houses which will enable us to house a large number of clerks’ population which will be working in the Secretariat.
*** Legislative Assembly Debates** (Central), Vol. III of 1945, 29th March 1945, p. 2261.