Relevant extract from the House of the People Debates dated 23.4.1953 on the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Bill

Summary

This one-page extract from the House of the People Debates, dated 23 April 1953, records Shri T. T. Krishnamachari’s intervention on the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Bill. Krishnamachari argues that the Deputy Speaker and the other parliamentary officers should be treated as whole-time officers once they receive a salary.

Key points

• The extract concerns the status and remuneration of officers of Parliament.
• Krishnamachari describes the Deputy Speaker as a whole-time officer.
• He notes that Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee had proposed an amendment to state this explicitly in the statute.
• The Government preferred recognition through parliamentary convention rather than a statutory clause.
• The argument relies on the fact that the officers are elected by Parliament and continuously observed in the discharge of their duties.
• Krishnamachari asks Mookerjee to allow the convention to be tried in practice.