Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India August 1950

2. The Survey aims at providing a broad description of the Economic conditions during the period under review and contains separate notes dealing with the various economic activities of the country during that period together with the monthly statitics for the current as well as for the previous year. [...] Corrections have to be made from time to time in these statistics on receipt of revised data fran the reporting authorities and the progressive figures should 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 Survey. [...] GENERA L. In pursuance of their policy of preventing rise in the prices of essential commdities as a result of speculation about the current international situation the Goverment of India called a inference of the Chief Ministers and Food Ministers of the various States towards the middle of August 193). [...] In the spot section„ prices were fairly steady at the beginning of the fortnight; bit towards the end of the month a steady advance was noticeable. [...] A. were the main features of the import trade of cotton during the first quarter of the current financial year.