900 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
ENTRY 73-A
*Mr. Naziruddin ahmad : ...So if inter-planetary travel is to be included in the list as it must, this amendment will also have to be accepted. A journey from the Earth to the Moon and back is likely to be the earliest achievement. But Mr. Kamath’s amendment will not make it possible. My amendment should be accepted to make the original amend ment complete. I hope. Sir, if the amendment is to be rejected, it is rejected in a more satisfactory way by vote.
Mr. President : I do not suppose any further speech is necessary !
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not quite understand whether the proposals of my Friend relate to matters which are unknowable or which relate to matters which are unknown. If they are unknown, then we have wasted our lime. But if they arc unknown and not unknowable, then we have enough powers to deal with them. Why bother with any entry at all ?
Mr. President: I will put Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad’s amendment to the vote.
(The amendment was negatived.)
LIST I
ENTRY 74
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (Bombay : General): Sir, I move:
“That for entry 74 of List I, the following entry be substituted:—
‘74. The regulation and development of inter-Stale rivers and river-valleys to the extent to which such regulation or development under the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest.’ ”
Shri Brajeshwar Prasad : (Bihar : General): Mr. President, may I with your permission, say one word before I move my amendment? Somehow, due to my fault perhaps, one word is missing from this amendment. I want the inclusion of the word “regulation”. Sir, I beg to move:
That in amendment 3562 of the List of Amendments, for the proposed entry 74 of List I, the following be substituted :—
“74. The regulation and development of inter-State rivers and inter-State waterways, including flood controol, irrigation, navigation and hydro-electric power and for other purposes, where such development under the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be necessary or expedient in the public interest.”
*CAD. Vol. IX, 31st August 1949, p. 828.
† Ibid., 1st September 1949, p. 830.