The Eastern Economist May 19 1950

Maian's Government has now promised to agtate the problem of the High Commission territories which the tail-end of the Union Constitution enables the king to transfer to the Union on the presentation of addresses from the Houses of the Union Parliament. [...] The appointment of the Committee having been the result of the complaints made against the quality of foograins issued to consumers in rationed areas and the prices charged it was only proper that the report should for the major part have been confined to acosideration of the transport and storage arrangements in the States of imi.-iorted and internally procured foograins and the Jcope [...] The Famine Enquiry Commission proceeding on optimistic expectations rgarding the resumption of exports of rice from Burma after the end of the war did not hope for lifting of food control before 1951-52 and the position since it reported has only become worse with the continuance of trouble in Burma and the reduction of food supplies due to the partition of the country. [...] THE EASTERN ECONOMIST 753 THE WEEK'S NOTES ANOTHER RAILWAY DISASTER The tragic accident to the Punjab Mail near Lahbul 206 miles fron Calcutta on the main line of the East Indian Railway on May 7 is the worst tragedy of the current year and eclipses the gravity of the accdent to the Kashmir Mail near Sirhind towards the end of January. [...] THE GENERAL ELECTION The particulars about the preparation of the eletoral rolls and other preliminaries relating to the first general election under the constitution furnished by the Chief Election Commissioner at a recent Press Coference at Calcutta do not inspire confidence either in the careful preparation of the rolls and delimitation of constituencies or in adherence to the target dat