DRAFT CONSTITUTION 893
ENTRY 63
*Mr. President : ... We may now take up entry 63.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. President, I am not moving amendment No. 3551 to the original entry. In regard to amend ment 34 which I am moving I shall in doing so incorporate in it amendment No.
212 also. Sir, I move :
“That for entry 63 of List I, the following entry be substituted :—
‘63. Regulation and development of oilfields and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances declared by Parliament by law to he dangerously inflammable’.”
† The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not think that either of these two amendments is necessary. The purpose which my Friend’s Professor Shibban Lai Saksena has in view, viz,, that entry 63 should also permit the centre to regulate prospecting for oil, etc., would be served by the words we have used “Regulation and development”. With regard to the addition of the word “corrosive”, I think it is not necessary to have any such power at all.
[With the lone amendment by Dr. Ambedkar, Entry 63 was added to the Union List.]
ENTRY 64
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for entry 64 of List I, the following entry be substituted :—
‘64. Industries, the control of which by the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expendient in the Public interest’.”
@The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, the entry as it stands is perfectly all right and carries out the intention that the drafting Com mittee has in mind. My submission is that once the Centre obtained jurisdiction over any particular industry as provided for in this entry, that industry becomes subject to the jurisdiction of Parliament in all its aspects, not merely development but it may be in other aspects. Consequently, we have thought that the best thing is to put the industries first so as to give undoubted jurisdiction to Parliament to deal with it in any manner it likes, not necessarily development. Therefore, the entry is far wider than Mr. Kamath intends it to be.
[Two amendments were rejected Dr. Ambedkar’s above motion was adopted, Entry 64, as amended was added to the Union List.]
*CAD, Vol. IX, 31st August 1949, pp. 804.
† Ibid., p. 805.
‡ Ibid., p. 806.
@ Ibid, p. 807.