Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Thursday 19th April 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

Speaker: From the reports of the proceedings of the House during my absence from the 29th March and on- wards, as also from enquiries made from me after my return on the 12th instant, I understand that the question of immediate change in the present timings of the meetings of Parliament, at least for the summer period, is weighing with hon. [...] be taken into considera- tion. " Shri Sonavane (Bombay): When the House adjourned yesterday I was speaking on how the movement of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes from one State to another would be restricted by the failure of the Minis- try of Law to safeguard the interests of these people by seeing that they are not omitted from the lists of the States and the Union. [...] I do not think that on that point it is at all necessary that an assurance need be given to this House r to the people outside that we are very particular of safeguarding the interests of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, in so far as the question of representa- tion of these castes is concerned in the House of the People as also in State 'Legislatures. [...] Clause (2) of article 330 says: The number of seats reserved in any State for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes under clause (1) shall bear, as nearly as may be, the came pro- portion to the total number of seats allotted to that State in the House of the People as the popula- tion of the Scheduled Castes in the State, or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or part of the State, as the [...] There- fore, the whole list has to be re-formu- lated and the promise given by the late Sardar Patel in the Constituent As- sembly that the list of 1935 Act would be accepted in Parliament for the con- ing election, must be kept, in justice to the departed leader and also to the Father of the Nation and also to the millions of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes who have been enjoy- ing certain