Articles by Arun Ghosh

External Resources and Self-Reliant Growth B P MATHUR exemplifies the rare breed of civil servants capable of independent thinking and sustained scholarly analysis; additionally, he has demonstrated the strength of character required to pursue research investigations and studies in the face of enormous practical difficulties and at con- siderable personal cost.

A Plea for Open Government Case of Narmada Project Arun Ghosh OF late, the science of governance appears to be increasingly oriented to secrecy in regard to the functioning of government, and efficient public relations (or PR for short) seems to have been perfected to an art, to replace open debate and to elicit support for government policies. Thus we find that the government budget today reveals less and less, even as government expenditure gobbles up an increasing share of the national product. The sources of routine, rudimentary data are denied to common citizens, not overtly but through non-availability and inaccessibility. Most official data are "for official use only"; and at times even elementary facts are held back under the Official Secrets Act.

The Panchayati Raj Bill Arun Ghosh While the motives of the government in precipitately introducing the Constitution (64th Amendment) Bill may be suspect and while some of the provisions of the bill may be objectionable, the introduction of the bill is a highly desirable development, the full implications of which may not have occurred to those who have drafted it.

The Small Industries Policy in India by Nasir Tyabji; Oxford University
THERE have been many studies in the past on the strategy of development of small scale units, as pan of the overall strategy of economic development in India. And yet, Tew have so far endeavoured to study the problem in a historico-thcoretical framework; perhaps none has analysed the issue in the context of the growth of capitalist enterprise and production relations in India. Despite severe limitations of the availability of data bearing on the subject Nasir Tyabjee has made a valiant attempt to do precisely that; to trace the historical evolution ot the policy, the theoretical underpinning of the historical developments, the conflict between the proponents of the Gandhian philosophy (envisaging self sufficient rural communities based on pre-capitalist modes of production) and the exponents of a capitalist form of industrial growth. The background of the official policy on small scale industries in India has two distinct (and mutually incompatible) strands. On the one side, there is the pre-independence Gandhian movement, based on a view of independent India as a nation of more or less self-sufficient village communities. On the other hand, there is the view of modern, industrialised India

Capital Stock, Capital Consumption and the Capital: Output Ratio Arun Ghosh CSO's New Series of national accounts attempts a switchover from deducting 'depreciation provision' from GDP to derive the net domestic product to estimation of capital consumption in the process of production. Two major issues arise in this connection, one theoretical and the other to do with practical difficulties of estimation.