PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 691
Shri Santhanam : His point is met by Dr. Ambedkar’s new amendment because all mechanically-propelled vehicles have been excluded from this proviso. Therefore, a substantial part of his point has been met already.
Shri Sarangdhar Das: I do not agree. If my amendments are accepted then all the involvements in the Law Minister’s amendment should go. Motor transport should be entirely banned. That is my amendment to the Bill as amended by the Select Committee. It is a very radical amendment.
Sir, I commend my amendment to the House.
Dr. Ambedkar: I do not accept it, Sir.
The motion was negatived.
- Ch. Ranbir Singh: I beg to move:
In the Explanation to part (8) of clause 122, omit the words “chaukidar, dafedar, lambardar, zaildar”.
Dr. Ambedkar: I do not accept the amendment.
Shri Satish Chandra (Uttar Pradesh) : I support the previous three speakers. I myself happen to be a lambardar. I have about ten villages in my zamindari and for each of them I am supposed to be the lambardar. Fortunately there is no co-sharer in most of them. I may be the owner of the entire village, but because I pay the land revenue to the Government I am called a lambardar according to Government revenue terminology. I have never imagined in my life that I am a Government servant or that I am in any official capacity connected with Government. Anybody who has to deposit land-revenue in the government treasury is known as lambardar in Uttar Pradesh. I do not know what is the system in other States. But in Uttar Pradesh any person who deposits land revenue in the government treasury either solely on his own
*P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 28th May 1951, pp. 9592-95.