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Council of State Debates Friday 17th March 1944 Official Report

1944

The Council met in the Council Chamber of the Council IIouse at Eleven the Clock the Honourable the President in the Chair. [...] It is being done because the Government is a national Government responsible to the people and interested in their welfare and because it realises that the late of the country not merely during the war but subsequently depends to no small extent on the health and vigour of the population. [...] Sen could tell us yesterday that steps had been taken by organising transport to increase the quantity of foostuffs that were being despatched to Cochin and Travancore his account seemed to me to indicate that the Government of India were unable to relieve the difficulties of the people of Cochin and Travancore to a greater extent because of the transport difficulties— THE HONOURABLE KR. [...] The export of rice from Orissa has been rendered' possible only because of the poverty of the people and it is no credit to the Central Government practically to compel the Government of Orissa at the present time to allow the export of food as it did before. [...] They became conscious of the magnitude of the problem only when the truth was allowed to be published in the British papers and such steps as have been taken by the Central Government to bring pressure to bear on the Provincial authorities are due to the pressure of public opinion.
government politics public policy
Pages
38
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Council of State Debates Friday 17th March 1944 Official Report
409-445 unknown view