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by Schedule II and the salary which he is at present getting. When that incumbent disappears and another is appointed he will get the salary that is fixed by the Schedule.
I hope that the figures suggested by the Drafting Committee as salaries for the various functionaries dealt with in this Schedule will commend themselves to the House.
*Shri Prabhu Dayal Himatsingha : ...Sir, I support the article put forward by Dr. Ambedkar.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : (United Provinces : General) : Mr. President, Sir, the Draft Constitution provided that the President should get a salary of Rs. 5,000 a month and the Governor of a State Rs. 4,500 a month. It was then proposed....‡
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : President Rs. 5,500 a month.
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, all I wish to say is that there are three points which have been raised and which require some reply. Mr. Kamath attacked the provision in Schedule II allowing the judges of the Supreme Court a free house. This question of providing for a house in the Constitution for the judges of the Supreme Court was decided upon after careful consideration. It was felt that a large number of judges who would be appointed to the Supreme Court would be coming from the far ends of this country to the capital city and that it would not be proper to throw them on their own resources to find a house which would be in keeping with the dignity of their office. That was the principal reason why the Drafting Committee felt that the Government should have the obligation to provide a house.
With regard to the question of the house being free of rent, we thought that was a sort of compensation for the reduction in the salaries of the Supreme Court judges, which we had proposed in comparison with the salaries of the judges of the Federal Court. Personally I was somewhat surprised at the derisive remarks made by my honourable Friend Mr. Kamath on this particular point, because if he is objecting to a free house to anybody I should have expected him to say something about the free house which we provide both for the President as well as for the Governor-General and I personally....‡
Shri H. V. Kamath : I did not refer to rent and I do not know whether it is a free house or not.
*CAD, Vol. X, 12th October 1949, p. 144.
† Ibid., pp. 146-148.
‡Dots indicate interruption—Ed.