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dated March 4, 1956: Magic of engineers

Constructing an air-conditioned building in Bombay for the Railways was less costly than a building without air-conditioning, the Railway Minister told a startled Rajya Sabha on March 3, while replying to the Railway debate. Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri said he himself had stopped the construction of the AC building , but later on he found that the cost was less than that of a non-AC building, and he had to agree to the proposal. "It may be the magic of the engineers, but we cannot dabble with experts too much," he added. When members suggested sarcastically that this information should be passed on to other departments and it might make the administration "air-conditioned," the Railway Minister replied: "The weather in Madras, Bombay or Calcutta is very humid and severe on the staff. Why should we members or Ministers grudge the air-conditioning to the staff, which will make their work easier, when we are sitting in a first-rate air-conditioned hall?"

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