The Eastern Economist June 10 1949

O. Coalmines Committee; Fiscal Integration of States WORLDGRAM SPECIAL ARTICLES The Recovery of Sterling.. Pakistan's Balance of Payments.... The Battle of the Balances WHEN the Sterling Balance! again become the thorny subject of discussion between Britain and India at the end of this month the discussion will be about the same thing—which now promises to become a hardy annual—but against a [...] From the statistics of the seborne import trade of India it is not possible to discover the share in the volume of imports which is attributable to the articles brought within the ambit of U.G. [...] Recently Raj Mitra B. D. Amin Chaiman of the Board of Directors of the Alembic Chemica Works Company Limited—a representative unit of the industry—in an address at the Forty-Second Annual General Meeting of its share-holders predicted a bright future for the company and dilated upon the various obstacles that impeded the rapid Nogress of the indutry. [...] Fiscal Integration of States After a thorough scrutiny of the financial structure of the States the States Finance Inquiry Committee appointed by the Government of India under the Chairmanship of Sir V. T. Krishnamachari is now understood to have suggested that the process of intgration should be spread over the next ten years. [...] A.: That four out of five American families are insured against the death of the bread-winner of the family is the finding of a report prepared by the Institute of Life Insurance.