100 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
132 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948
of a Governor elected by the people and a Chief Minister responsible to the Legislature might lead to friction. The Committee has therefore suggested an alternative mode of appointing Governors: the Legislature should elect a panel of four persons (who need not be residents of the State) and the President of the Union should appoint one of the four as Governor. Article 138. 12. Deputy Governors.—The Committee has not thought it necessary to make any provision for Deputy Governors, because a Deputy Governor will have no function to perform so long as the Governor is there. At the Centre, the position is different, because the Vice-President is also the ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States; but in most of the States there will be no Upper House and it will not be possible to give the Deputy Governor functions similar to those of the Vice-President. There is a provision in the Draft enabling the Legislature of the State (or the President) to make necessary arrangements for the discharge of the functions of the Governor in any unforeseen contingency. Articles 212 13. Centrally administered areas.—In accordto 214. ance with a resolution of the Constituent Assembly, you, as the President, appointed a Committee of seven members for the purpose of recommending constitutional changes in the centrally administered areas namely, Delhi, Ajiner-Merwara, Coorg, Panth Piploda and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Committee submitted its report on October 21, 1948. The Committee’s recommendations were briefly these:—
(1) Each of the provinces of Delhi, AjmerMerwara and Coorg should have a Lieutenant-Governor appointed by the President of India.
(2) Each of these provinces should normally be administered by a Council of ministers responsible to the Legislature.
(3) Each of these provinces should have an elected Legislature. As regards Panth Piploda the Committee recommended that it should be added to Ajmer-Merwara and as regards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands