470 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
PART VII
Finance
ARTICLE XVIII
There shall be levied on each village committee of the Federation an amount to be paid annually to the Federation.
The levy shall be fixed by the Working Committee of the State in accordance with the Scheduled Castes population of the village which has accepted membership of the Federation.
It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the Village Federation Committee to send statement of accounts to the Chairman of the State Federation Committee.
The amount collected by the State Federation Committee shall be distributed as follows :
(1) One-eighth shall be allotted to the Village Federation Committee.
(2) One-eighth shall be allotted to the Taluka Federation Committee.
(3) One-eighth shall be allotted to the District Federation Committee.
(4) Five-sixteenth shall be allotted to the State Federation Committee.
(5) Five-sixteenth shall be allotted to the Centre.
Every member of the Central Executive Committee of the Federation and every member of the All-India Committee of the Federation whether elected, ex-officio, associate or nominated, shall pay an annual fee of Rs. 10 to the Federation.
Every member of the Working Committee of the Village Committee, Taluka Committee, District Committee and State Committee shall pay an annual fee of Rs. 5 per year to their respective Committees.
The fees due from members of the Central Executive shall form part of the revenues of the Federation. The fees due from members of the Village Committee shall form part of the Village Committee, from Working Committee of the Taluka shall go to the Taluka Committee, of the District to the District, from the Working Committee of the State to the State.