Sir, I beg leave to make the motion standing in my name which runs thus:
“This Assembly resolves that in pursuance of paragraph 20 of the Cabinet Mission’s Statement of May 16, 1946, an Advisory Committee be constituted as hereinafter set out:–
1.(a) The Advisory Committee shall consist of not more than 68 members who may include persons who are not members of the Assembly.
(b)(i) It shall consist initially of 52 members who shall be elected by the Assembly in accordance with the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
(ii) The Assembly may elect in such manner as the President may deem appropriate up to 7 members.
(c) The President may at any one time or at different times nominate members to the Committee not exceeding 9.
2. The Advisory Committee shall appoint Sub-Committees to prepare schemes for the Administration of the North-Western Tribal Areas, the North-Eastern Tribal Areas and the Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas. Each of such Sub-Committees may co-opt not more than 2 members from the particular tribal territory under its consideration for the time being, to assist it in its work in relation to that territory.
3. The Advisory Committee may appoint other Sub-Committees from time to time as it may deem necessary.
4. The Advisory Committee shall submit the final report to the Union Constituent Assembly within three months and may ‘submit interim reports from time to time.
5. Casual vacancies in the Advisory Committee shall be filled as soon as possible after they occur in the manner in which the seat in respect of which the vacancy had arisen was originally filled.
6. The President may make standing orders for the conduct of the proceedings of the Committee.”