506 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
so much interested in putting down these evils should have some authority for executing laws of this character ? Should it merely allow the provinces the liberty to do what they liked with the legislation made by Parliament with such intensity of feeling and such keen desire of putting it into effect ? Take, for instance, another case—Factory Legislation. I can remember very well when I was the Labour Member of the Government of India, cases after cases in which it was reported that no Provincial government or at least a good many of them were not prepared to establish Factory Inspectors and to appoint them in order to see that the Factory Laws were properly executed. Is it desirable that the labour legislations of the central Government should be mere paper legislations with no effect given to them ? How can effect be given to them unless the centre has got some authority to make good the administration of laws which it makes ? I therefore submit that having regard to the cases which I have cited—and I have no doubt honourable Members will remember many more cases after their own experience—that a large part of legislation which the centre makes in the Concurrent Held remains merely a paper legislation, for the simple reason that the Centre cannot execute its own laws. I think it is a crying situation which ought to be rectified which the proviso seeks to do.
There is one other point which I would like to mention and it is this. Really speaking, the Provincial Governments ought to welcome this proviso because there is a certain sort of financial anomaly in the existing position. For the Centre to make laws and leave to provinces the administration means imposing certain financial burdens on the provinces which is involved in the employment of the machinery for the carrying out of those laws. When the centre takes upon itself the responsibility of the executing of those laws, to that extent the provinces are relieved of any financial burden and I should have thought from that point of view this proviso should be a welcome additional relief which the provinces seek so badly. I therefore submit. Sir, that for the reasons I have given, the proviso contains a principle which this House would do well to endorse. ( Cheers ) .
[ All 4 amendments were negatived. Article 60 was adopted without any amendment and added to the Constitution .]