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The amendment was, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Speaker : The question is :
“That clause 3 stand part of the Bill.”
The motion was adopted.
Clause 3 was added to the Bill.
(M R . DEPUTY SPEAKER IN THE C HAIR )
Clause 4 (Amendment of the Schedule, Act XVI of 1948)
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 consultation with the Central Council of Dentists, recognise for this purpose and on such conditions as the Government may deem fit to prescribe therefore.”
I wish to confess that Dr. Ambedkar is a hard nut to crack. He has already said in his speech that the organisation mentioned in this sub-clause was defunct, whereas I was informed by a member of the council of Dentists that a Committee had been appointed to inquire into the conditions of this institution and that the Committee was already working on it. 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 that therefore I don’t want to damage the reputation of the institution. But as an enquiry-is going on. I think 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. What I am suggesting is that he may even recognise that institution. I want Government to have powers to recognise any institution ....