Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Friday 10th June 1949

I would only like to know when the emoluments of the President the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the rouse of the People have been regarded as expenditure charged to the revenues of India why the salaries and allowances of the Ministers and members of :Parliament should not be so treated. [...] If the intention is to keep some of these items out of the vicissitudes of party politics if the intention is to keep them fixed and unchangeable at least for some given period such as for instance the salary and allowance of the President during the term of his office or the salary and allowances of the presiding authorities in the two Chambers of the Legislture or the salaries pensions a [...] The charges which will be charged on the revenues of India are the salaries of the President the Speaker the Judges of the Supreme Court and now the AuditoGeneral. [...] I therefore think that this should not be a proki'sion in the Constitution but should be left to the rules or the conventions o: the House so that on such occasions the House May bring to the notice of the Government that they have not carried out the proposals agreed upon by the Committee of Supplies and the Committee of Ways and Means. [...] Ambedkar to the new article."DRAFT CON ST1TUI ION 761 The difference between the proposed amendment and the original article is this: whereas in the original article the grants made by the House of the People will have to be authenticated by the President according to this amenment an Appropriation Bill will be moved before the House of the People and passed.