Government of India Planning Commission Report on the Efficient Conduct of State Enterprises

In the course of its work during the past year the Planning Commission has been impressed with the need to strengthen the machinery of economic administration at the disposal of Government both at the Centre and in the States. [...] The protection of the State being Post and Telegraphs essential to secure the safe carriage of letters in the troubled times of the past the postal service became a function of the State and since administrative convenience and security were very important reasons for the introduction of the telegraph service that too was included in the proper field of State action. [...] The shortages of supplies that followed the loss of Burma and the inability of private enterprise to make any headway in the circumstances of the time compelled Government to take over both the import and distribution of foodgrains. [...] development along lines hitherto untouched dictted by the urgent needs of the country such as the setting up of a special factory to make The Governments of some of the Princely States of the old India had sought to perform for their peoples some part of the functions which the industrialist and businessman did for the rest of India. [...] The chief questions that arise are the degree of parliamentary and ministerial control over the authority the juridical shape of the authority the composition of the governing body of the authority the internal management of the authority and the protection of the consumer and the tax payer.