The Eastern Economist May 30 1952

Assailed by these future in the examination of current demands whether doubts the Finance Minister has adopted the traditional of the tea industry for relief or of the middle-classes for Treasury attitude—which is one of caution and maithe restoration of food subsidies even in the degree in tenance of the status quo. [...] Schumacher to the agreements and the refusal punder his influence of seven of the nine States of the Federal Republic to observe the occasion of the signing of the Bonn Convention. [...] REORGANISATION OF THE AUDIT DEPARTMENT The reference to the working of the Indian Audit Department in the Report on the Finance Ministry's activities during 1951-52 has emphasised more the iportance of the duties pertaining to the office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General than the actual working of the Audit Department in recent years. [...] It is well known that the Constitution has guaranteed the independence of the Comptroller and Auditor-General and that there has been a rapid growth in the responsbilities of the Audit Department by the integration of the States in most of which there was no system of accounting worth the name. [...] It is necessary that the States should relieve the Centre of some of the burden of this loan programme and they can do so in one or more of the following ways: (i) firstly the levy of betterment fees in ru_spf of land which is within the areas affected by the pn)- gramme of development is a matter of urgency as it will increase the revenue or capital receipts of the State Government diminishin