Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India March 1941

2. The Survey contains two parts : the first part consists 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 representing the sum of the monthly figures shown in the table or the sum of the latest month's figures and of the progressive figures published in the preceding month. [...] 1. GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS. 708 2. PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES AND INDUSTRIES :- (I) COTTON MANUFACTURES. 708-711 (II) COTTON RAW. 711-714 (III) JUTE MANUFACTURES. 715-718 (IV) JUTE RAW. 718-719 (V) IRON AND STEEL. 720-723 (VI) SUGAR. 724-725 (VII) COAL. 725-727 (VIII) TEA. 727-728 (IX) OTHER INDUSTRIES. 728-729 3. E [...]. P;. 755-757 VIII COASTAL TRADE—TOTAL VALUE. 758-761 IX FINANCIAL STATISTICS. 762-763 X (a) CLASSIFICATION OF DISPUTES BY INDUSTRIES. 764-766 X (b) INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1932 TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1940. 767 X 1 POSTAL TRAFFIC:— (1 ) PARCELS TELEGRAMS AND REGISTERED ARTICLES OF THE LETTER MAIL 768-789 (2) LETTERS POSTCARDS RE [...] Stocks of sacking cloth and bags at the end of Arch 1941 were 12.5 crores of yards and registered a decrease of 1.7 crores of yards as compared with the previous month and of 5.1 crores of yards as compared with the same month of last year.