Forum March 16 1952

The members of the committee of which Deputy Speaker of the last Parliament Ananthasayanam Ayyanger was chairman have been at pains to hide a feeling of shocking amazment over the irregularities and malpractices c:lsfiguring the rcord of the administration of these projects. [...] The statement of the Minister of Industry and Comerce Harekrushna Mahatab at Nagpur that the Government did not look upon the price slump as a catastrophe and that they were not going to place the intrests of a section above the cormunity as a whole but they would be prepared to meet all untoward eventualities in the economic life of the country rsulting from the present price crash [...] The remarkable success won in the recent elections by the Peoples' Democratic Front with the Communist Party in the fore testifies to the further growth of the national-liberation movment." jects to be undertaken under the Technical Co-operation Prgramme concern several Minitries of the Government of India arrangements for ensuring the necessary consultation and cordination with the [...] Schemes for expansion of the Works submitted by the Goverment of Mysore which were uder the consideration of the Planing Commission and the Goverment of India were also referred to during the inquiry. [...] The third concerning the Sudan was a visual substantiation of the British claim that the Sudanese are not all of the same stock of people as the Egyptians that the Nile Valley went beyond the Sudan as well and therefore the Sudanese have right to live as an independent nation by theselves.