Legislative Assembly Debates. Tuesday 8th November 1932. Official Report

(b) During the present retrenchment it was decided by the Government of India to accept the recommendation of the Railway Court of Enquiry that the length of service principle should be the sole criterion. [...] The required declaration could not be obtained from the staff in some of the Accounts Offices and the iuestion of allowing such staff the option to remain under the old leave -ules is under the consideration of Government. [...] 1769 (b) The Government of India are not in a position to issue instructions to the Local Governments on the subject but a similar request from an Honourable Member of the House was brought to the notice of the Local Governments in 1921. [...] M. Maswood Ahmad: Has the attention of Government been drawn to a statement published in the Alarnan of Delhi dated the 5th August 1932 regarding the resignation of the members and officbearers of the Works Committee of the Government of India Press New Delhi on account of certain grievances and injustice done to them? [...] An enquiry has been made and Government have been informed by the Controller of Printing and Stationery that there is no basis for the suggestion made in the newspaper report that the cause of the resignation of the members of the Works Committee was unjust treatment by the executive officers of the Press.