1072 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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*OFFICERS IN THE MINISTRY OF LAW
227. Prof. K. T. Shah: Will the Minister of Law be pleased to state:
( a ) the number of ( i ) Gazetted, and of ( ii ) non-Gazetted officers, clerks and Class IV servants in his secretariat, on:
( i ) 15th August 1947, ( ii ) 31st March 1948; ( iii ) 31st March
1949; ( iv ) 31st March 1950; ( v ) 31st March 1951; and
( b ) the number of officers, clerks and Class IV servants, appointed temporarily in the first instance and subsequently ( i ) made permanent, ( ii ) retired or ( iii ) retrenched, during each of the years 1947-48 (post-partition), 1948-49, 1949-50 and 1950-51 ?
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): The information asked for is not readily available. Its collection will involve a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour.
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**LIST OF POLLING STATIONS
1069. Pandit Kunzru: Will the Minister of Law be pleased to state :
( a ) whether the Election Commission has asked the Bombay State Government or the District Magistrates to prepare a list of the polling stations and issued instructions that the lists should not he shown to any party before they are finally approved :
( b ) whether the Bombay Government have in spite of the Election Commission’s instructions, issued orders to the District Magistrate of any districts that the preliminary lists should be shown to the Vice-Chairman of Rural Development Boards :
( c ) whether these Vice-Chairmen are members of District Congress Committees and in many cases their Chairmen ; and
( d ) If the answer to parts ( a ) and ( b ) above be in the affirmative, what action Government propose to take in the matter ?
*P. D., Vol. 9, Part I, 12th Septembert 1951, p. 1270.
**Ibid., 17th September 1951, p. 1273.