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787PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES Corporations Bill, but because I was engaged on another Committee I could not be present in the House and I took your permission for that. I have since understood that those amendments were not allowed to be moved which you were pleased to tell me would be allowed. So, it is happening like this—Members of the Select Committee are not to blame. Dr. Ambedkar: I am not blaming. Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: I would rather, under these circumstances, beg of Dr. Ambedkar to kindly give up this Bill. This Bill is not important—it does not require...... Dr. Ambedkar: I am prepared to give every Bill that is standing in my name. Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: I would suggest that this Bill be dropped. *Mr. Deputy Speaker: So far as the Select Committee on the Notaries Bill is concerned, due to causes beyond their control hon. Members could not be present. They had to attend various, other Select Committees and the meetings could not be held for want of quorum. I would request the Hon. Minister to make another effort in this direction. Dr. Ambedkar: I am in the hands of the House. Dr. Tek Chand (Punjab): May I suggest that the time for submitting the report of this Select Committee may be extended up to the 6th ? The time expires today. Mr. Deputy Speaker: I shall take notice of the oral motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to extend the time ? Dr. Tek Chand : We shall meet on the 4th or 5th and by this time the other Select Committees will have finished their work. This is only half an hour’s work. Therefore, I am making the suggestion for extension of time. Mr. Deputy Speaker: Does the Hon. Minister agree with the proposal for extension of time ? *P. D., Vol. 14, Part II, 28th September 1951, pp. 3619-21.

788 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES Dr. Ambedkar : I have no objection. Mr. Deputy Speaker: I thought the Hon. Minister who is the sponsor of the Bill will make the motion. Dr. Ambedkar : That is a difficult matter for me at this stage. If the House appoints a Select Committee, surely Government will take the necessary steps to put the measure through. Mr. Deputy Speaker: Considering the peculiar circumstances of this House, the House does not seem to be in favour of discharging the Select Committee and an oral motion has been made for extension of time by one of the hon. Members. I would like this motion to be made by the Hon. Minister himself. Dr. Ambedkar : I do not know whether I can do that. It is not for me to make any motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker: He is the sponsor of the Bill. Therefore, he has to make the motion. Just a minute. The time does not expire today. The Select Committee can report up to the 1st. Therefore, in due course the Hon. Minister may make a motion for extending the time up to the 6th. He is now aware that the house is generally in favour of continuing the Select Committee. That disposes of this particular matter. So far as other matters are concerned. I would ask hon. Members to refer to rule 7o. It is true that hon. Members are on various Select Committees, and with sessions in the morning and evening the Select Committees will have to sit while the House is in session. Rule 70 says that Select Committees may sit whilst the House is sitting, provided that on a division bell being rung the Chairman of the Committee shall suspend the proceedings of the Committee for such time as will in his opinion enable Members to vote on the division. I understand this is the practice in the House of Commons also. Hon. Members want many matters to be referred to Select Committees. On one hand there is this desire and on the other there is a desire to say ‘ We are called in the Select Committee’. My remarks yesterday did not apply to

789PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES hon. Members who were away in connection with Select Committees. Select Committee work is as good as work in this Parliament. As far as Shri Sidhva is concerned, he need not complain that Government have put him in several Select Committees. Why should he be anxious to serve on more than one Select Committee ? Shri Sidhva : We did not approach for Select Committee membership. Dr. Ambedkar: The work of the Select Committes and the house will be faciliated if care is taken, while nominating people to Select Committees, to see that the same people are not nominated to two Committees. Shri Sidhva: Quite right. Mr. Deputy Speaker: In future, care should be taken to see that Members are spread over various Select Committees instead of clogging or requesting one Member to be on more than one Select Committee. Even if a mistake is committed by the sponsor of a Bill in putting the same Member again, the Member concerned might consider whether it is proper for him to accept membership of more than one Select Committee and not complain to the House that he has no time to attend meetings.

790 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (41) *MOTIONS RE : DELIMITATION OF CONSTITUENCIES ORDERS Mr. Deputy Speaker: We will take up motions redelimitation of constituencies. I will call the names of hon. Members who have given notice of motions, they need merely say they move. The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): I have got to make five motions which are the main motions. Thereafter, there are certain motions for amending my motions. Therefore, I submit, subject to your ruling, the proper course would be to call upon me first to move my motions and then ask the other Members who want to move amending motions to move theirs. Mr. Deputy Speaker: The Hon. Minister may move his motions now. COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES (BOMBAY) ORDER Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move: That the following modifications be made in the Delimitation of Council Constituencies (Bombay) Order, 1951, laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely;— (1) That in the Table, under the heading “Graduates’ Constituencies” against the entry “Bombay City (Graduates)” in column 1, for the entry “Bombay City” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Greater Bombay.” (2) That in the Table, under the heading “Graduates’ Constituencies” against the entry “Northern Division (Graduates)” in column 1, for the entry “Northern Division” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Northern Division excluding Bombay Suburban Districts and Ahmedabad City.” *P. D., Vol. 16, Part II, 6th October 1951, pp. 4399-4404.

791PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (3) That in the Table, under the heading “Graduates’ Constituencies” against the entry “Central Division (Graduates)” in column 1, for the entry “Central Division” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Central Division excluding Poona City.” (4) That in the Table, under the heading “Teachers’ Constituencies” against the entry “Bombay City (Teachers)” in column 1, for the entry “Bombay City” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Greater Bombay.” (5) That in the Table, under the heading “Teachers’ Constituencies” against the entry “Northern Division (Teachers)” in column 1, for the entry “Northern Division” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Northern Division excluding Bombay suburban Districts and Ahmedabad City.” (6) That in the Table, under the heading “Teachers’ Constituencies” against the entry “Central Division (Teachers’)” in column 1, for the entry “Central Division” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Central Division excluding Poona City”. (7) That in the Table, under the heading “Local Authorities’ Constituencies”, against the entry “Bombay City (Local Authorities)” in column 1, for the entry “Municipal Corporation of Bombay City” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Area under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay.” (8) That in the Table, under the heading “Local Authorities’ Constituencies”, against the entry “Ahmedabad City (Local Authorities)” in column 1, for the entry “Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Area under the jursdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad.” (9) That in the Table, under the heading “Local authorities’ Constituencies” against the entry “Ahmedabad District (Local Authorities)”, in column 1, for the entry “Ahmedabad District (excluding Ahmedabad City Municipal Corporation) and Sabarkantha District” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Ahmedabad District (excluding the area under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad) and Sabarkantha District.”