REPRESENTATION..........MANGS ETC. 331
APPENDIX II
Extract from the Proceedings of 23rd Backward Class Board Meeting held in the II Advisor’s Room, Secretariat, Bombay, on 7th June 1940 at 11 a.m.
Resolution No. 6 :-
This Board strongly protests against the policy enhancing Judi on Mahar Inam lands recently brought into operation in the Province of Bombay under which an addition to the Judi out of all proportion has been made on the already poverty-stricken Watandar Mahars, Mangs and Vethiyas and demands that the same policy be withdrawn immediately and the levy made thereunder be cancelled as much as the said policy is contrary to the underlying principle of the Hereditary Village Offices’ Act, and is also harsh and unjust. Mr. B. K. Gaikwad’s proposal No. 2 was discussed and adopted with slight modification as Resolution No. 7. As regards the rate of payment of daily allowance, it was suggested that a Mahar or Vethiya should be given a daily allowance of annas 6 whenever he is sent out of his village to perform Government duties.
(Mr. B. K. GAIKWAD)
Resolution No. 7 :-
This Board resolves that the Government Resolution No. 7420/ 33 of the Revenue Department, dated 13-9-1938, containing a list of duties to be performed by Mahars, Mangs, Vethiyas, impose upon them an intolerable burden which is impossible for these Watandars to bear. This Board is, therefore, of opinion that these Watandars should not be called upon to perform duties listed at item Nos. 1,3, 5, 9, 13 and 19 without payment of extra remuneration in the form of daily wages of not less than annas six whenever they are called upon to perform these duties.
(a) The Board is of opinion that Watandars be exempted from discharging duty No. 15 as it is, in the opinion of the Board, a duty that should be discharged by the Police.
(b) The Board is of opinion that No. 2 should be confined