Legislative Assembly Debates Monday 7th April 1947 Official Report

(b) The Representative of the Government of India has already impressed on the Government of Ceylon the difficulties which the labourers experience in meeting such objections; but as the law stands at present the only course open to the voters is to appeal to the Revising Officer against the decision of the Registering Officer. [...] Sir Vijaya Ananda: (a) Will the Honourable Member for External Affairs be pleased to state whether the attention of Goernment has been drawn to the demand by the members of the Azad Hind Sangh in Germany published in the Hindustan Times of 31st January 1947 who recently returned to India that an inquiry be made into the conduct of the Indian Security Unit also known as the Indian Military Mi [...] reasonable: (c) whether the Government of India propose to consult the Agricultural Industrial and Trade interests of India before our delegation leaves India for the Geneva Conference; and (d) whether Government propose to include the representatives of Agricutural interests as represented by the Federation of Rural People's Organisations in the preliminary talks suggested and in the delegat [...] The Goverment of India therefore intended to appoint a Committee on Recruitment with.a view to exploring the possibility of bringing about an improvement in the existing system of recruitment of Indian seamen prior to the institution of the Social Insurance Scheme. [...] the shipowners and seafarers) that they should be given a chance to evolve a machinery to remove some of the evils in present system of -recruitment the Government of India postponed the setting up of the Recruiment Committee for the time being.