786 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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SELECT COMMITTEE MEETINGS
- The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): I beg to report under sub-rule (3) of rule 65 that the Select Committee appointed by the House to consider the Notaries Bill has failed to meet successively on two days.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The Hon. Minister has merely intimated the fact—it may be followed up by any concrete motion that he may make.
Dr. Ambedkar: For the moment I merely propose to report as required by sub-rule (3) of rule 65. It is for the House to decide whether the house will discharge the Select Committee which has been appointed and proceed.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : May I ask any hon. Member in the Select Committee to state what exactly is the position ?
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (Punjab) : I am one of the members of the Select Committee.........
Dr. Ambedkar: I should like to say that I do not cast any aspersion on the members of the Select Committee for their failure to meet because I am very well aware that they are engaged in many other Select Committes which are also meeting simultaneously, but since the rule casts upon the chairman of the Select Committee the responsibility to report to this house I am making this formal motion to bring the matter to the notice of the House.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: I was submitting that so far as this Select Committee is concerned, its meetings were held at such time that Members could not possibly attend them. We are Members of several Select Committees and we have to make a choice as to which Comittee to attend. Even yesterday, I had some amendments to move to this Financial
*P. D., Vol. 14, Part II, 28th September 1951, pp. 2617-18.