Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Monday 16th April 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

The Minister of Finance (Shri C. D. Deshmukh): I beg to move: That the Bill to authorise Payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1952, be taken into consideration. " Mr. [...] The question is: That the Bill to authorise pay- ment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consoli- dated Fund of India for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1952, be taken into consideration. " The motion was adopted. [...] Chairman: Amendment moved: That for the original motion the following be substituted: Having considered the Report of the Air Transport Inquiry Com- mittee this House is of opinion that effective steps should be 1. -,:ken to reduce the high costs of operation and that the Government subsidy should not be allowed to encou- rage extravagance and in- efficiency. " I would like to know whether the hon. [...] It is only the Government that can inte- grate them all and operate them all as from a single centre, so to say, bearing in mind the needs of all the parts of the country and all the States and of all classes of the population which the private entrepreneur will never do. [...] The benefit is much greater from the point of view of the development of the service and of an industry which is one of the highest national importance from the point of view of national security and still more so from the point of view of technical development in which we are told we are backward to-day.