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province may go on prescribing its own standard and the Centre be required to persuade each province to examine its standard and point out whether the standards are good or bad, it is much better to bring it over to the Union List. So far as the rest of that matter is concerned it is proposed to leave the entry 43 in List II as it is so that the provinces will retain all the control they have over theatres, dramatic performances and cinemas minus the question of sanctioning. I do not think that any injury will be caused to any particular interest by the proposal I have made. On the other hand, as I have stated there would be distinct advantages in concentrating the power of sanctioning in a single body like the Centre.
Shri Raj Bahadur : Only sanctioning ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Once the Centre has sanctioned that the film is a good film and conforms to moral standards, I do not see any reason why there should be any further provision for the exhibition at all. The matter ends.
Mr. President : I put the amendment No.222 to vote.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I would like to withdraw it. (The amendment was, by leave of the Assembly, withdrawn.)
Shri Raj Bahadur : I would like to withdraw my amendment No. 266.
[The amendment was, by leave of the assembly, withdrawn. Entry 70A was added to the Union List.]
ENTRY 73
*Mr. President : Then comes entry 73. Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir I move :
“That for entry 73 of List I, the following entry be substituted :—
‘73. Inter-State trade and commerce.’ ”
The words that follow these words in entry 73 are unnecessary, because there is a proposal to drop entry 33 of List II.
Mr. President : There is an amendment to this, amendment No. 226 of Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am not moving it.
Mr. President : Then there is no amendment to this entry. I put the entry, as moved by Dr. Ambedkar, to the House.
[The amendment was adopted. Entry 73, as amended, was added to the Union List. Entries which are not mentioned here have no coments by Dr. Ambedkar in the debates. Most of these were adopted without any discussion.]
*CAD, Vol. IX, 31st August 1949, p. 825.