PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 179
Clause 3 was added to the Bill.
- Clause 4 (Amendment of the Schedule, Act XVI of 1948)
(Mr. D EPUTY S PEAKER in the Chair )
Shri Tyagi (Uttar Pradesh) : My amendment reads as follows :
In clause 4, for the proposed item (2A) of Part I of the Schedule to the Dentists Act, 1948, substitute :
“(2A) Any other institution imparting education or giving practical training in dentistry which the Central Government may in consulation with the Central Council of Dentists, recognise for this purpose and on such conditions as the Government may deem fit to prescribe therefor.”
I wish to confess that Dr. Ambedkar is a hard nut to crack ……… I don’t want to make any aspersions on the institution. I don’t know what its standard is, I have no personal knowledge of it, and therefore I don’t want to damage the reputation of the institution. But as an enquiry is going on, I think that instead of committing the whole Parliament to recognising that institution, it is better that the Government had reserved the right in their own hands to decide....
Dr. Ambedkar : We are not affecting the institution in any way. We are dealing with the degrees granted by that institution in 1940—eight years ago.
Shri Tyagi : Dr. Ambedkar expects me to believe that the degrees of an institution may be recognised without the institution itself being recognised. The degrees of the Calcutta University granted in such-and-such a year may be recognised for purposes of the I.C.S. or I.A.S., but that does not mean that the Calcutta University is recognised! What an argument ! Here I am giving him more powers. What I am suggesting is that he may even recognise that institution. I want Government to have powers to recognise any institution ………..
Dr. Ambedkar : That powers exist in section 10(2).
- P. D., Vol. 5, Part II, 11th August 1950, pp. 864-65.