Constituent Assembly of India (Legislative) Debates Proceedings other then Questions and Answers Friday 25th March 1949 Official Report

In spite of the fixation of the price of sugar the protection may not be able to help the industry. [...] The amount actually available to that body would be in the neighbourhood of 50 lakhs for the purpose of carrying on research and everything necessary for the purpose of improving the yield of the sugarcane and the yield of sugar from the cane particularly in these two provinces. [...] Secondly and which is more important is that the moment a protective duty is imposed under the provisions of Section 4 of the Indian Tariff Act the Eecutive Government without coming upto Legislature can vary that rate of duty in whatsoever manner it may be necessary for the purpose of either safeguarding the interest of industry or safeguarding the interest of the cosumer so that the Leg [...] referred to in the matter and the decision was of course the decision of the Government and the Tariff Board had no objection. [...] it is not the intention of Goverment to interfere with the representation enjoyed by -these representative bodies but there mey be changes in the composition_ of these bodies in the futne mul we should not therefore like to tie down the hands of Government in the matter of representation of the Indian ten industry interests in the.