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 estimated cost of implementing the recommendations over the first five years, would be about seven times the current expenditure per head of the population on the same services, and thereafter, fourteen times. FINDING THE MAN-POWER Industrialisation requires artisans and technical personnel of all kinds fer workshops and factories. During the war years, tens of thousands of Indians have been trained in the hundreds “of technical schools set up to provide skilled workers for the ordnance factories and engineering work- shops turning out munitions of all kinds. Thousands more have learned to become expert tradesmen in the many mechanised services of the Army. This skilled labour will be available for the needs of industry, and, to ensure that _ it is properly distributed, a network of labour exchanges will be established throughout the country, each exchange being in the charge of a trained manager—many of them ex-Servicemen-—who has either been trained in England himself, or who has received his training from men who have. FINDING THE MONEY With the taxable capacity of India fully utilised, and with borrowing continued at a high level, the total resources available for reconstruction in the first five years will, it is hoped, approximate to £750,000,000 apart from private investment. Issued by INFORMATION DEPARTMENT INDIA OFFICE S.W.1. September, 1945. The information contained in this pamphlet is available for use by recipients in any way they may desire. Requests for information about any aspect of India or Burma affairs should be addressed to the Adviser on Publicity, Information Department, India and Burma Offices, Whitehall, S.W.1. The Information Department issues weekly a News Summary, compiled from official and Press sources, which may be obtained on application. (5141/962) Wt. 29306/P352 22m. 10/45 T. & B. Gp. 468.
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