348 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Ambedkar : I will not answer it now. I will answer it at my own time. I have noted it and I think it is a question to which some answer should be given. There is no ground for running away from it. It may be that the House may not accept my explanation, but that I have no explanation to offer is not the presumption that should be made.
With regard to this clause it will be noticed that the latter part of clause (6) has been separated into two parts, one dealing with the qualifications for practising any profession, and the second part dealing with the actual carrying on of any trade etc. The important part of that second part lies in this that it permits the State to make a different classification between private members carrying on the trade and the State carrying on the same trade. This clause and the necessity for its introduction has arisen on account of the judgment of the Allahabad High Court reported in 1951 A.I.R. (Allahabad)
257, Full Bench, known as Motilal versus the Government of Uttar Pradesh. As hon. Members will remember, U.P. Government have introduced a scheme of nationalisation of motor transport. They were proceeding with their scheme piecemeal, territory by territory; certain territory they had said would be subject to their monopoly and that no private individual would be entitled to run their buses within that territory; certain territory which they thought in the beginning they could not cope with they left to private bus owners. In doing so, they said that it would not be necessary for the State to obtain a licence for the running of their buses within the territory that they had ear-marked for themselves, but required the private owners to obtain licences from the State. This question was raised before the Allahabad High Court on the ground that they involved discrimination. It seems to me that if nationalisation is a desirable thing and in the best interests of the country, then it must also be admitted that it may not be possible for the State to undertake nationalisation all throughout the country at one and the same time. It involves administrative problems ; it involves many other problems and consequently, in order to fully carry out the scheme and to consolidate it, it may be necessary for the State to define a territory and to leave others to carry