890 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Service Commission should be constituted, then as a result of the reso lution the Centre gets jurisdiction and not otherwise. In all fundamental matters, it is distributively, if I may say so, a State Public Service Commission.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I beg leave to withdraw my amendment. (The amendment was, by leave of the Assembly, withdrawn.)
Mr. President : I shall put Mr. Kamath’s amendment to vote.
[It was withdrawn. Dr. Ambedkar ‘s amendment was carried. Entry
58, as amended, was added to the Union List.]
ENTRY 58-A
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I move :
“That after entry 58 of List I, the following entry be inserted :
‘58-A. Union pensions, that is to say, pensions payable by the Government of India or cut of the Consolidated Fund of India’.”
This entry did not exist in the draft. We felt it necessary to have such an entry as a measure of caution.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not think that the amendment suggested by my Friend Dr. Deshmukh is any improvement or has any substantial difference from the amendment as I have moved. The difference that is sought to be made is this that there may be certain pensions which may be payable out of the Consolidated Fund of India, which means out of the proceeds of taxes. It may be perfectly possible for the Government of India to institute pensions which are of a contribu tory character in which case the burden may not be on the Consolidated Fund but on the person who has already contributed to a Fund. That is the distinction. And that is why the entry has been worded in the way I have worded it.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I would like to withdraw my amendment.
(The amendment was, by leave of the Assembly, withdrawn.)
[The motion of Dr. Ambedkar was adopted and Entry 58A wax added to the Union List.]
ENTRY 60
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :—
“That for entry 60 of List I, the following entry be substituted :—
‘60 Ancient and Historical Monuments and records declared by Parliament by law to be of national importance’.”
*CAD, Vol. IX, 31st August 1949, pp. 799-801.
† Ibid., p. 800.