868 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
NEW ENTRY 9-A
- Mr. President : There is notice of one amendment by Prof. Shibban Lal Saksena for adding one more entry ; “Cosmic energy, and scientific and industrial research and other resources needed for its production, development and use.”...
Would you like to move it. Mr. Shibban Lal Saksena ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not know what it means.
Mr. President : We have atomic energy; he wants to have cosmic energy also.
Prof. Shibban Lal Saksena : ... I hope Dr. Ambedkar will see that this lacuna is removed.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, all I can say is that if the amendment moved by my Friend Prof. Shibban Lal Saksena is at all necessary, I think we have enough power under entry No. 91 of List I to deal with that : “any other matter not enumerated in List II or List III including any tax not mentioned in either of those Lists”. That matter could be covered by this.
Mr. H. V. Kamath : That would cover many of the entries in the List itself.
(The motion was negatived.)
†Mr. President : Entry 14. Dr Ambedkar, would you like to say anything in reply ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : No elucidation is necessary.
(Entry No. 14 was added to the Union list.)
ENTRY 22
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for entry 22 of List I, the following entry be substituted : —
‘22. Piracies and crimes committed on the high seas or in the air; offences against the law of nations committed on land or the high seas or in the air.’ ”
The second part of this entry—“offences against the law of nations committed on land or the high seas or in the air” is new. It was an omission made in the earlier part of the draft. With regard to the first part, we are substituting the word “crimes” for “felonies and offences”, as it is the common word used in India. “Felonies and offences” are English
*CAD. Vol. IX, 30th August 1949, p. 744.
† Ibid., p. 745.
‡ Ibid., pp. 747-748.