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are going to be affected. I have received representations from various communities which desire that their names should be included. It is quite likely that many backward people have not yet come to know that anything is being done which would affect their rights. It may very well be that backward as these people are, their rights are probably jeopardised, simply because we are doing this in great hurry. From that point of view, I would not be surprised if there are many castes which happen to be omitted and which have a grievance against what we are doing. If we compare the lists that are in vogue, for instance, so far as the present situation is concerned, the Order in Council prepared in 1930 and 1931 and which formed part of the Act of 1935, with the present list, we find that there are great many omissions. I have another notification by the Public Service Commission. Here in Delhi, you will be pleased to find that the list of Scheduled Castes contains no less than 64 numbers. As against that, in this schedule, you find only 39. What steps have been taken to find out and what justification there is to omit the different castes, I do not know. I am prepared to wait till the Hon. Minister replies. But, I am sure, this is a somewhat drastic reduction. I do not know on what basis it has been made. Even if it is slightly late, I would request my hon. friend not to be in a hurry, for my hon. friend is in a great hurry to get this Bill through. That is the only anxiety of the Cabinet Ministers; they are in a hurry and want things to be done in five minutes or ten minutes, as if they are the only persons who understand things, and the other people merely waste their breath and spend the time of the House and do not contribute anything specially or directly although they represent the people. That sort of attitude I do not very much like. I hope that Dr. Ambedkar would give us a patient hearing and I would urge on him, on behalf of large number of people who have no voice and who do not understand their rights or what is going on in this House, that there should be no hurry in this matter. I should like the consideration of this Bill to be positioned and the whole subject taken up and settled once for all.
As Mr. Sonavane rightly remarked, nowadays, many people are leaving their homes and there is a large transfer of