956 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*** Extension in Service to** C.P.W.D. Officers
44. Shri Sri Prakasa : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state:
(a) the number of persons, who have retired from, but have been re-employed in the services of the Central Public Works Department as Superintending, Executive and Assistant Engineers, respectively, since 1939;
(b) the number of those persons who have been given extensions to their original terms together with the instalments of each term of extension;
(c) if it is a fact that the Finance Department of the Central Government, has expressed itself against the grant of extensions to the original term ; if so, the reasons for any action in this behalf against the instructions of the Finance Department;
(d) if such extensions interfere with the recruitment of new hands and the advancement of young officers ; if so, whether any provision is made to compensate those whose prospects are blocked; and
(e) if Government propose to take any action in the matter of the termination of such extensions and bettering the prospects of younger officers ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Three.
(b) Since 1939, extension of service under Fundamental Rule 56 was granted in three cases, the periods of extension being 6 months, 3 days and 1 month respectively.
(c) The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative ; the second part does not arise.
(d) and (e) No.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1946, 20th February 1946, p. 1214.