From 50 Years Ago (18 June 2005)

Imperial Bank has been on the cards for many Council, which is today the supreme planning FROM 50 YEARS AGO years. But the manner of its implementation authority in the country, calling upon Prof was unexpected and came as a surprise. By Mahalanobis, the Statistical Adviser to the these measures, the State has for the first Cabinet, to prepare a Plan-frame in the light time, tacitly assumed its responsibility for of the statistics which had become available financing agriculture and shouldering the after the first Five Year Plan was finalised. entire burden, if need be, of agricultural The paucity of statistics, Pandit Nehru said,