DRAFT CONSTITUTION 937
ENTRIES 33A AND 33B
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That after entry 33 of List III, the following new entries be inserted :—
‘33A. Custody, management and disposal of property (including agricultural land) declared by law to be evacuee property.
33B. Relief and rehabilitation of persons displaced from their original place of residence by reason of the setting up of the Dominions of India and Pakistan.’ ”
(Amendment No. 296 was not moved.)
[Entries 33A and 33B were added to the Concurrent List.]
ENTRY 34
†Shri Brajeshwar Prasad: ...Sir, there is another aspect of the question to which I would like to draw the attention of the House. Entry 34 reads thus:
“Economic and social planning.”
What about political planning?
Some Honourable Member : It will be too disastrous.
The Honourable dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It can be done by way of amendment of the Constitution.
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I am very sorry but I cannot accept this amendment moved by Shrimati Purnima Banerji. The introduction of the word “education” seems to me to be quite unnecessary. The word “social” is quite big enough to include anything that relates to society as a whole except, of course, religious planning, and a contradiction would be only between ‘social’ and ‘religious’. What the State would not be entitled to plan would be ‘religions’; everything else would be open to the State.
With regard to the observations of my honourable Friend Shri Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri, I think he will realize that this entry finds a place in the Concurrent List and the State also would have the freedom to do its own planning in its own way. It is only when the Centre begins to have a plan and if that plan conflicts with the plan prepared by the State that the plan prepared by the State will have to give way and this is in no sense an encroachment upon the planning power of the State and therefore, this entry, I submit, should stand in the language in which it stands now.
*CAD, Vol. IX, 3rd September 1949, p. 949.
† Ibid ., p. 950.
‡ Ibid, p. 952.