Page 21 - A brief note on calligraphy of the Constitution of India in English and Hindi

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in conclusion, allow mo to state that it has been a
proud privilege for the artists of Santiniketan to have
been entrusted with this opportunity of serving their
motherland.

APPENDIX XIII
LETTER FROM THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER TO
HONOURABLE THE PRIME MINISTER, DATED THE 2ND
MARCH, 1950.
1 need not enter into the details of the scheme for
calligraphing in English and in Hindi a copy of the
Constitution, for decorating and illuminating the same
and for having copies of it. You have been more
conversant with the scheme from the beginning. The
work was started under the orders of the President
of the Constituent Assembly and the Secretariat of
the Constituent Assembly was in charge thereof. As
the work could not be completed before the 26th of
January, 1950, the same was transferred to me for
completion. In this connection Mr, President wrote
to you on the 25th of January, 1950, on the question
of remuneration to be paid to the artists who are
employed for carrying out the decoration and illu­
mination. In reply thereto by your letter of the 29th
January. 1950. to the President, you stated that the
artists should be paid a suitable honorarium, and that
Shri Nandalal Bose might be informally consulted
about it. Thereafter, I consulted Shri Nandalal Bose,
and I have new received from him the estimates of
the remuneration. I need not take you into the
details of the estimates.
I have gone into the question of the total cost over
calligraphing the Constitution both in English and
Hindi, of decorating and illuminating the same, as
also of printing a few copies thereof. In view of our
commitments made in this respect to the caliigraphists
and the Artists (except in the matter of printingj.
there is uo doubt that we must complete- what we