Budget of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Governor General for 1949-50 as Finally Adopted

While as a result of the War the pareliasi frig power in the hands of the community increased considerably the availithrii supply of commodities in the post-war period was not sufficient to meet the increasingidemandfer them The shortage! of essentiaticcanmeditiesl particularly food and citthing aggravated they situation; sowing to the. [...] 20.62 crores more than the budget largely as a result of the intensive drive for' the clearance of arrears and the -recent 'ordinance authorising the provisional collection of tax on the basis of the statements of income of the assessees but of this increase As. [...] On the contrary it is my intention to secure the utmost economy possible in public expenditure and the House may rest assured that the recommendations of the Committee will be most carefully and earnestly considered by Government and the resulting economies enforced during the course of the year. [...] The main reason for this is that the reduction in the strength of the armed forces cannot he made over-night and the process of demobilisation has necessarily to be spread over a period similar to the recruiment and training of the forces. [...] the development of the forest estate in the Andamans the preliminary work on a number of river projects like the Kosi the Assam Valley the Narbads:.nd Sthe.r-nedfINANDE MINISTER'S' BUDGET SPEECH 11 schemes investigations in Coorg Central Provinces and Bastar the reorgansation of the Central Waterways Navigation and Irrigation Research Station the expansion of the Indian Agricultural Rese