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the President, in consultation with the Governor or Ruler of a State should have the power to issue a general notification in the Gazette specifying all the Castes and Tribes or groups thereof deemed to be Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of the privileges which have been defined for them in the Constitution. The only limitation that has been imposed is this : that once a notification has been issued by the President, which, undoubtedly, he will be issuing in consultation with and on the advice of the Government of each State, thereafter, if any elimination was to be made from the List so notified or any addition was to be made, that must be made by Parliament and not by the President. The object is to eliminate any kind of political factors having a play in the matter of the disturbance in the Schedule so published by the President.
*Mr. President : Does anyone else wish to speak ? Do you wish to say anything Dr. Ambedkar ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not accept the amendment of Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava.
Mr. President : Then I put the amendments
[Both the above amendments of Dr. Ambedkar were adopted. Following amendment of Pandit Bhargava was negatived.]
“That in amendment No. 201 of list V (Eighth Week), in clause (2) of the proposed new article 300A, the following be added at the end : —
‘for a period of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution.’ ”
†Mr. President : Then I put Mr. Krishnamachari’s amendment which has really been accepted by Dr. Ambedkar—218A. The question is :
“That in amendment No. 201 of List V (Eighth Week), in the proposed new article 300B—
(a) in clause (1), for the word ‘communities’ in the two places where it occurs, the words ‘tribal communities’ be substituted;
(b) in clause (2) for the word ‘community’, in the two places where it occurs, the words ‘tribal community’ be substituted.”
(The amendment was adopted.)
*CAD, Vol. IX, 17th September 1949, p. 1639.
† Ibid., p. 1640.