Articles by Ekalavya

ventures undertaken during the year. The total project cost of the 56 companies which approached the capital market in 1967-68 amounted to Rs 204 crores which is an increase of 38 per cent over the previous year. Existing companies accounted for a project cost of Rs 172 crores, and new companies of Rs 31 crores. Plant and machinery constituted as much as 65 per cent of the total project cost indicating that most of the projects were in the nature of modernisation and installation of additional balancing equipment.

of the lll "actually working" societies. In the same vein, in the case study on page 142, Goyal observes that "it is not possible to say with confidence if the co-operatives were running in loss or profit''. Yet, in the next sentence, he flings at us the following information "as reported a high percentage of the co-operatives was running in loss" (p 142).

Dissidents as Partners Ekalavya BHARATIYA KRANTI DAL which emerged from last week's conclave of ex-Congressmen in Indore is, as a political organisation, an advance over the Jana Congress formed in Delhi in December last. Jana Congress had to allow the different State parties of dissident Congressmen to retain their names and separate identities and, of course, decide on their candidates and election strategy. At Indore the party gave itself a new name, a flag and at least a preamble to a programme. It elected a chairman but postponed the election of an executive committee, leaving an 11-member steering committee chosen by the chairman in charge till next September or so by when, it is hoped, the party would be organised enough to hold elections at the State and Central levels.