960 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
of a general nature to encourage private building all over India and not only particularly in Bombay and Calcutta.
They have withdrawn the instructions which they issued to Provincial Governments regarding the exercise of control over building construction. They have advised Provincial Governments generally to encourage private building by all means in their power. They have issued specific instructions about the release of bricks and increased quantities of other building materials like cement, steel, timber, etc. which are under the control of the Government of India,) have been made available to private builders.
Government of India have further decided to convene a meeting in Delhi in the first week of March 1946, of representatives of the building trade in order to discuss with them the factors that are still impending the progress of private building in this country.
(c) The Government of India believe that the relaxations are going to make it easier for builders to put up structures in future.
(d) The Government of India have addressed provinces in regard to a short term scheme for the encouragement of the construction of housing for industrial labour and those other workers in urban areas who are unable to pay an economic rent. The scheme involves a subsidy from the Centre provided provinces make an equivalent subsidy and will be referred to by the finance Member in his Budget speech.
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- Mr. Manu Subedar : (a) Is the Honourable the Labour Member aware of the special measures being taken in the United Kingdom to increase activity in house building ? If so, what are those measure ?
(b) Do Government propose to indicate their policy with regard to the following suggestion made by the Statesman of the 23rd January, 1946.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1946, 25th February 1946, p.1427.