Constituent Assembly of India (Legislative) Debates Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Wednesday 1st September 1948 Official Report

Speaker: I have to inform honourable members that for the purpose of election by means of the single transferable vote of a member to the Standing Committee for the Ministry of Commerce the programme of dates will be as follows: Nomination to be filed in the Notice Office upto 12 Noon on Thursday the 2nd September. [...] The old Act does not suit the present conditionS; in view of the changed conditions I am glad that the Bill has been brought and it proposes to give the necessary military training to the people of the country. [...] May I tell him that although as a democrat I would always fight se far as the rights of this House and of the people of this country are concerned—and they should' get as much democratic poWier as possible—so far as the Army is concerned I shall really make an exception and say that the more the concentration of power in the hands of the entral Government the better it is for the safety of the an [...] One of the things to which I should like to draw the attention of the House in this connection is that the Indian Territorial Force Act recognised the importance of establishing an :Urban unit. [...].1(.1-18 [Shri Mahavir Tyagi] I beg to submit that if the provisions of this Bill as have been thought of by the Honourable the Minister for Defence are given shape to then I am sure that the structure and the set up of that organisation will infuse some hope in the individual.