Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India June 1940

2. The Survey contains two parts : the first part contrasts of separate notes dealing with the various economic activities of the country and describing the economic conditions of the month and the second gives the necessary general statistical data dealing with production trade and financial conditions. [...] The progressive figures must not therefore be understood as necessarily repretenthig the sum of the monthly figures shown in thiPtabie or the sum of the latest month's figures and of the progressive figures published in the preceding month. [...] 128 128-131. 131-134 (iii) Jute Manufactures. 135-138 (iv) Jute raw. 138-139 (v) Iron and Steel. 140-143 (vi) Sugar. 144-145 (vii) Coal. 145-=..147 (viii) Tea. 147-148 (ix) Other Industries. 149 S. ELECTRIC ENERGY GENERATED AND CONSUMED IN BRITISH INDIA. 150 4. AGRICULTURAL SITUATION. 150=151 5. INDEX NUMBERS OF WHO [...] The entry of Italy into the war and the subsequent surrender of France to the Axis Powers were the two major events of the month which gave a serious turn to the situation. [...] Stocks of sacking cloth and bags at the end of June 1940 were 21.2 crores of yards and registered an increase of 4.4 crores of yards as compared with the previous month and of 2.6 crores of yards as compared with the same month of last year.