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1950 from the Honourable the Speaker to the Honour­
able the Prime Minister and No. 154-P.M., dated
the 4th March 1950 from the Honourable the Prime
Minister to the Honourable the Speaker in reply there­
to on the subject of calligraphy, decoration, etc.
2. The correspondence is self-explanatory and the
estimate of the expenditure involved in the scheme
as stated by Honourable the Speaker in his letter
referred to above comes to Rs. 1,80,000. It is possible
that this amount may be exceeded by Rs. 5,000 to
Rs. 10,000 or there may be a saving of about that
amount.
3. It is still too early to say what the sale of the
printed copies of the calligraphed Constitution of
India will yield as estimates will be dependent upon
the consideration of the following aspects of the
matter:—
(a) What price may be fixed for the copy as
reasonable? Whether it should be based on
the cqgt or the price should be kept below
cost so that more copies may be sold.
(b) Whether M. Ps. should be given copies at con­
cessional rate, if not altogether free.
(c) Whether public libraries should be given
copies at concessional rates, and if so, to what
extent and at what rate.
These questions can only be settled after the total
expenditure on decoration, illumination and printing
of the copies is known.

4. The Finance Ministry are, therefore, requested
kindly to accord sanction to expenditure not exceed­
ing Rs. 2,00,000 being incurred on the scheme. They
will be informed in due course of the actual expen­
diture and the total amount of realisation by way of
the sale of the printed copies of calligraphed Constitu­
tion.