DRAFT CONSTITUTION 381
...This amendment should be rejected outright and should never be accepted.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I cannot accept this amendment.
The motion of Loknath Misra was negatived.
ARTICLE 9
- Mr. Vice-President : Amendment No. 313 is disallowed as being verbal. Amendment No. 314. Dr. Ambedkar.
Shri H. V. Kamath : Mr. Vice-President, Sir, may I ask whether this is merely a verbal or at best a formal amendment liable to be disallowed ? It merely seeks to substitute the words ‘State funds’ in place of the words ‘the revenues of the State’.
Mr. Vice-President : I shall keep that in mind. Dr. Ambedkar, will you please deal with that point also ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in sub-clause (b) of the second paragraph of clause (1) of article
9, for the words ‘the revenues of the State’ the words ‘State funds’ he substituted.”
The reason why the Drafting Committee felt that the words “the revenues of the State” should be replaced by the words “State funds” is a very simple tiling. In the administrative parlance which has been in vogue in India for a considerably long time, we are accustomed to speak of revenues of a Provincial Government or revenues of the Central Government. When we come to speak of local boards or district boards, we generally use the phrase local funds and not revenues. That is the terminology which has been in operation throughout India in all the provinces. Now, the Honourable members of the House will remember that we are using the word ‘State’ in this Part to include not only the Central Government and the Provincial Governments and Indian States, but also local authorities, such as district local boards or taluka local boards or the Port Trust authorities. So far as they are concerned, the proper word is ‘Fund’. It is therefore, desirable, in view of the fact that we are making these Fundamental Rights obligatory not merely upon the Central Government and the Provincial Governments, but also upon the district local boards and taluka local boards, to use a wider
*CAD, Vol. VII. 96th November 1948. pp. 653-34.