The Indian Journal of Economics July 1951

Even a National income Committee has been set up by the Government of India ; and while the Committee has not yet finished its labour the Ministry of Commerce of the Government of India has been estimating and publishing the figures of the national income of India. [...] Another attempt at building up an estimate of the income of the Bombay province has been made by the Director of Economics and Statistics Bombay and _ published in the January 1950 issue of the Bulletin of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics Bombay. [...] Rice is our most important crop accounting for 43 per cent of the acreage and 45 per cent of the value ; wheat accounts for 5 per cent of the acreage and 6 per cent of the value ; gram 6 per cent of both acreage and value sugar (raw) 1.7 per cent of acreage and 5.5 per cent of value and barley 5 per cent of acreage and 4 per cent of value. [...] V alue (If Livestock Products The chief sources of information on this subject are the Report on the Livestock Census of Bihar for 1945 the Livestock Statistics issued by the Ministry of Agriculture 1950 and the Brochure on the Marketing of Fish in India 1948. [...] If we proceed on the assumption that the number of non-taxpaying employees of the Central Government bore the same proportion to the number of tax-paying employees of the Central Government as in the case of the Provincial Government employees the number of Central Government employees posted in Bihar would be about 30 000 which is certainly an overestimate.