We met on the 5th March, and on the 21st, 23rd and 27th Aprii 1947. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was, by special invitation, present at all the meetings of the committee except the one held on the 23rd. The statement of His Majesty’s Government made in Parliament on the 20th February 1947, has imported an element of urgency into the work and proceedings of the Assembly and, in our opinion, it is essential that the constitution should be prepared well before the end of this year. The task of arranging the order of business and of framing a timetable is, however, by no means easy. The political situation is developing with great rapidity, and the changes that are taking place inevitably affect the work of the Assembly. We are not, therefore, in a position at this stage to make final recommendations except in regard to the immediate future; and we request that we be permitted to submit a further report at a subsequent stage.