India plans for the future.

Date:
1945
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Credit: India plans for the future. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The plans prepared provide for a total of 111 aerodromes and landing-grounds. The total cost of the construction of new aerodromes, the adaptation of existing aerodromes for civil “air transport, and the construction of allied works, such as airport buildings, hotels, rest-houses, quarters, aerodrome and air route lighting, and radio station buildings, is estimated to cost about £12,000,000. The equipment and installation of radio stations is estimated to cost about £450,000. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT The Government of India have proposed a number of schemes to encourage and promote the rapid industrialisa- tion of the country. ’ Perhaps the most important is a proposal for the transfer from the Provincial to the Central sphere of jurisdiction of responsibility for the development of twenty different industries regarded as essential in the national interest. These plans are of long standing, and those so far made are not on the basis of nationalisation. But, if the Government of India decide that any particular industry is of national importance, and if private capital is not forthcoming to promote such an industry, then the Government will run it themselves. These industries include aircraft, tractors, chemicals and dyes, iron and steel, transport vehicles, electrical machinery, machine tools, etc. Shipbuilding, and the manufacture of locomotives, will be carried out by the State as well as by private enterprise. It would be the Government’s policy to assist industries in various ways, such as by subsidies, loans at reduced interest, the guarantee of dividends, and the purchase of their products. And there would be a larger measure of Government control, especially for industries receiving Government assistance, and those controlling scarce natural resources, or those which develop monopolistic tendencies. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH All planning will be co-ordinated, and new discoveries and methods adapted to the national use. To achieve this, a five-year programme of development of scientific and industrial research is outlined by the Industrial Research