Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Friday 12th October 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

The Minister of Planning (Shri Nanda): Yesterday When the House rose I was in the midst of an attempt to clarify the conception of the Plan- ning Commission with regard to the role of the State in relation to pri- vate enterprise. [...] In order to remove that sus- picion the provision is now made that the Government will appoint either an officer or an authority to dispose of 'these applications and the proce- dure of disposing of these applications will be laid down in the id . rules ar the Select Committee have made re- commendations as to the procedure, the time limit within which the app- lications should be disposed of and [...] You will find in the provisions of the first Select Committee that the Central Board will requisition the services of officers for the purpose of investigation. [...] The unfortunate fact is that there are5everal spokes- men on behalf of the''Industries here who expect the Government to control the entire population and who can say here that Government are going to control the industries for the people and they will not control the population for the industries. [...] The object is that the population should not be left at the mercy of the industries but the indus- tries must be left at the mercy of the population.