836 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
†Mr. President : ...Dr. Ambedkar may explain how the separate articles came into being. You move them together and we may take them separately at the time of voting.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, they may be put separately.
Sir I move :
“That for article 285, the following articles be substituted :—
- (1) The Chairman and other members of a Public Service Commission shall be appointed, in the case of the Union Commission or a Appointment and term of Joint Commission, by the President, and in the case of a office of members State Commisssion, by the Governor or Ruler of the State:
Provided that at least one-half of the members of every Public Service Commission shall be persons who at the dates of their respective appointments have held office for at least ten years either under the Government of India or under the Government of a State, and in computing the said period of ten years any period before the commencement of this Constitution during which a person has held office under the Crown shall be included.
(2) A member of a Public Service Commission shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains, in the case of the Union Commission, the age of sixty-five years, and in the case of a State Commission or a Joint Commission, the age of sixty years, whichever is earlier :
Provided that—
(a) a member of a Public Service Commission may by writing under his hand addressed, in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission, to the President and in the case of a State Commission, to the Governor or Ruler of the State, resign his office;
(b) a member of a Public Service Commission may be removed from his office in the manner provided in clause (1) or clause (3) of article 285-A of this Constitution.
(3) A person who holds office as a member of a Public Service Commision shall, on the expiration of his tern of office, be ineligible for re-appointment to that office.
285A. (1) Subject to the provisions of clause (3) of this article, the Chairman or any other member of a Public shall only be removed Removal and suspension of a from office by order of the President on the ground of member of a public Service Commission misbehaviour after the Supreme Court on a reference being made to it by the President has, on inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed in that behalf under article 121 of this Constitution, reported that the Chairman or such other member, as the case may be, ought on any such ground be removed.
(2) The President in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission and the Governor or Ruler in the case of a State Commission may suspend from office the Chairman or any other member of the Commission in respect of whom
*CAD, Vol. IX, 22nd August 1949, p. 572.
† Ibid., pp. 573-576.