The Joint Committee on the Delhi Rent Control Bill, 1958
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C.B. (ID No. 75 LOK SABHA *>/»■/s* THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DELHI RENT CONTROL BILL, 1958 EVIDENCE L O K SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI November » 1958 Price l I'os AUTHORISED AGENTS FOR LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT PUBLICATIONS Agency Name and address of Agency Name and address of No. the Agent No. the Agent 1. Jain Book Agency, Connaught 19. The Kashmir Book Shop, Resi Place, New Delhi. dency Road, Srinagar Kashmir. 2. Kitabistan, 17-A, Kamla Nehru 20. The English Book Store, 7-Lf Road, Allahabad. Connaught Circus, New Delhi. 3. British Book Depot, 84, Hazarat- 21. Rama Krishna & Sons, 16-B, ganj, Lucknow. Connaught Place, New Delhi. 4. Imperial Book Depot, 268, Main 22. International Book House, Pri Street, Poona Camp. vate, Limited, 9, Ash Lane. 5. The Popular Book Depot Bombay. (Regd.), Lamington Road, 23. Lakshmi Book Store, 42, M. M. Bombay-7. Queensway, New Delhi. 6. H. Venkataramiah & Sons, Vidya- 24. The Kalpana Publishers, Tri- nidhi Book Depot, New Statue chinopoly-3. Circle, Mysore. 25. S. K. Brothers, 15A/65, W.E.A., 7. International Book House, Main Karol Bagh, Delhi-5. Road, Trivandrum. 26. The International Book Service, 8 . The Presidency Book Supplies, Deccan Gymkhana, Poona-4. 8 -C, Pycroft’s Road, Triplicane, 27. Bahri Brothers, 188, Lajpat Rai Madras-5. Market, Delhi-6. 9. Atma Ram & Sons, Kashmere 28. City Book-Sellers, Sohanganj Gate, Delhi-6. Street, Delhi. 10. Book Centre, Opp. Patna College, 29. The National Law House, Near Patna. Indore General Library, Indore. 11. J. M. Jaina & Brothers, Mori 30. Charles Lambert & Co., 101, Gate, Delhi-6. Mahatma Gandhi Road, Opp. 12. The Cuttack Law Times Office, Clock Tower, Fort, Bombay. Cuttack-2. 31. A. H. Wheeler & Co. (P) Ltd., 13. The New Book Depot, Connaught 15, Elgin Road, Allahabad. Place, New Delhi. 32. M. S. R. Murthy & Co., Visakha- 14. The New Book Depot, 79, The patnam. Mall, Simla. 33. The Loyal Book Depot, Chhipi 15. The Central News Agency, Tank, Meerut. 23190, Connaught Circus, New 34. The Goods Compansion, Baroda. Delhi. 35. University Publishers, Railway Road, Jullundur City. 16. Lok Milap, District Court Road, Bhavnagar. 36. Students Stores, Raghunath Bazar, Jammu-Tawi. 17. Reeves & Co., 29, Part Street, 37. Amar Kitab Ghar, Diagional Calcutta-16. Road, Jamshedpur-1. 18. The New Book Depot, Modi 38. Allied Traders, Motia Park, No. 3, Nagpur. Bhopal. WITNESSES EXAMINED Name of the Association and their spokesmen Date Pfege I. Central Tenants Association, New Delhi . 1-X I-5* 2-21 Spokesmen : 1. Shri Bri) Mohan . 2. Shri Baldev Sharma 3. Shri Lai Chand Vatsa II. Delhi Pradesh Kirayadar Federation, Delhi . 1-11-58 22—31 Spokesmen : 1. Shri Mahavir Prasad Gupta 2. Shri Naresh Chandra III. House Owners’Association, Delhi & New Delhi . 1-11-58 3i"-^45 Spokesmen : 1. Shri Sobha Singh 2. Shri R. S. L. Girdharilalji Seth 3. Shri L. Jagdish Parshad 4. Shri R. L. Venna TV. Delhi House Owners’ F e d e r a tio n ...................................3-11*58 46—80 Spokesmen : 1. Sardar Ranjit Singh 2. Shri D. C. Kaushish 3. Shri Rajeshwar Dayal 4. Shri R.D. Jain 5. Bawa Ishwar Singh THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DELHI RENT CONTROL BILL, 1958. M i n u t e s o f E v id e n c e t a k e n b e f o r e t h e J o i n t C o m m i t t e e o n t h e D e l h i Rent Control Bill, 1958 Saturday, the 1st November, 1958 at 11.00 hours and again at 15.35 hours. PRESENT Shri Govind Ballabh Pant— Chairman M e m b e r s Lok Sabha 2. Shri Radha Raman 16. Shri Shivram Rango Rane 3. Choudhry Brahm Perkash 17. Shri Chandra Shanker 4. Shri C. Krishnan Nair 18. Shri Bhola Raut 5. Shri Naval Prabhakar 19. Shri Phani Gopal Sen 6. Shrimati Sucfoeta Kripalani 20. Sardar Iqbal Singh 7. Shrimati Subhadra Joshi 21. Shri C. R. Basappa 8 . Shri N. R. Ghosh 22. Shri V. P. Nayar 9. Shri Vutukuru Rami Reddy 23. Shri Shamrao Vishnu Parulekar 10. Shri Kanhaiyalal Bharulal Mai via 24. Shri Khushwaqt Rai 11. Shri Krishna Chandra 25. Shri Ram Garib 12. Shri Kanhaiya Lai Balmiki 26. Shri G. K. Manay 13. Shri Umrao Singh 27. Shri Uttamrao L. Patil 14. Shri Kalika Singh 28. Shri Subiman Ghose 15. Shri T. R. Neswi 29. Shri Banamali Kumbhar Rajya Sabha 30. Shri Gopikrishna Vijaivargiya 37. Shri A. Dharam Das 31. Shrimati Ammu Swaminadhan 38. Shri R. S. Doogar 32. Shri Deokinandan Narayan 39. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gour 33. Dr. W. S. Barlingay 40. Shri Faridul Haq Ansari 34. Shri Awadheshwar Prasad Sinha 41. Shri Anand Chand 35. Babu Gopinath Singh 42. Shri Mulka Govinda Reddy 36. Shri Onkar Nath 43. Mirza Ahmed Ali D raftsmen Shri S. K. Hiranandani, Additional Draftsman, Ministry of Law. Shri K. K. Sundaram, Asstt. Draftsman, Ministry of Law. R epresentatives o f M in is t r ie s a n d o th e r O f f ic e r s Shri Had Sharma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. Shri A. V. Venkatasubban, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. S e c r e t a r ia t Shri A. L. Rai—Under Secretary, 2 W itnesses Examined i r r I. C e n t r a l T e n a n t s A s s o c i a t i o n , N e w D e l h i Spokesmen: 1. Shri Brij Mohan 3. Shri Lai Chand Vatsa 2. Shri Baldev Sharma II. D e l h i P r a d e sh K ir a y a d a r F e d e r a t io n , D e l h i Spokesmen: 1. Shri Mahavir Prasad Gupta 2. Shri Naresh Chandra III. H o u s e O w n e r s' A s s o c i a t i o n , D e l h i & N e w D e l h i Spokesmen: 1. Shri Sobha Singh 3. Shri L. Jagdish Parshad 2. Shri R. S. L. Girdharilalji Seth 4. Shri R. L. Verma I. C e n t r a l T e n a n t s A s s o c i a t i o n , N e w South Delhi, the Notified Area of D e l h i Mehrauli, the Notified Area of Narela etc. This Bill should be made appli Spokesmen: cable to those areas also from the 1. Shri Brij Mohan very inception. 2. Shri Baldev Sharma 3. Shri Lai Chand Vatsa Mr. Chairman: The present Rent Control Act does not apply there. (Witnesses were called in and they took their seats.) Shri Lai Chand Vatsa: Why should M r. Chairman: Is there any desire those people be denied the advantages on the part of Members of the Joint aimed at in this Bill? It is not advis Committee that the evidence should able that we give some advantages to be given in English, or will it do if certain people and deny those advant they speak in Hindi? ages to certain others. My submission S h r i N . R. G h o s h : It would be bet is that this should be made applicable ter if they speak in English. to the thickly populated areas which S h r i V . P. N a y a r : We do not under we have mentioned in our memoran stand Hindi. It is better if they s p e a k dum. in English. M r. Chairman: Are all these urban M r. Chairman: All right. areas? Shri Lai Chand Vatsa: Firstly, we Shri Vatsa: would like to s a y that we are much These are all urban thankful to the people who have taken areas. great pains in drafting this Bill. Then there is section 0 of the Rent M r. Chairman: I think you are aware Control Act. that your evidence may go before Parliament. Mr. Chairman: Of the Bill or of the existing Act? Shri Lai Chand Vatsa: We know that. This Bill has been extended to Shri Vatsa: Of the Bill. some areas with the provision that it can be extended to other areas also. There are so many categories men Our submission is that it should be tioned here. No. 1: premises which extended to all the thickly populated were let out and completed before 2nd areas where the problem of eviction of June, 1944. After that comes the is there like the Municipal Area of premises which were completed after 3 2nd of June, 1944 and before 1951; Our first submission is that the pro* then there are other premises which vision wanting him to establish facta were let out after 1951 and before 9th which existed long ago should go. It of June 1955 and then again another should be for the Rent Controller to category which were constructed after know the period of the construction of that. Either there should be no cont the building, the cost of it, the rent rol at all or the Act should be effec of the land, etc., etc. There should tively applied so that all people who not be so many classifications which want to be benefited can have that deprive the tenant of the advantage benefit. That was the intention of the of going to the court for having the Legislature and they have provided advantages of the Act.