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 EOONOMIO DEFELOPMENT Wha is urgently needed iu India -day is make a bold program o! economic developmen upon a scale hitherto undream ot, and immediately the necessary present moment constitute three materials. Men steps to there great of begin its execution. At the are three great needs which difficulties: men, money and two classes are needed: (1) administrative officers, with the economic and ment undertakings, and some of whom are acquainted financial aspects of develop- others having a general knowledge of engineering in some particular branch and able to plan schemes, and project reports; (2) executive entrusted with actual works 5f direct the preparation of officers who can be constrnction, and are each specialists in their own line. The administrative officers must be men with some knowledge of Indian conditions, and to a great extent they can be found in India at the present time. To supply the very large number of executive officers required, who will be mainly engineers and agriculturalists of varied training and experience, it will be necessary for the first few years to draw very largely on England and America. But the object should be to supply executive officers by training Indians in India as soon as possible. For this purpose we require to have established several new engineering colleges--at least one or two in each province--and to enlarge and specialize our arieultural colleges, greatly strensthen- ing their teaching staffs, and associating with them men imported from abroad well qualified in dairying, cattle breeding, .agricultural engineering, and so forth. High salaries must be paid so as to get first-olass men for these professional colleges. It would be abundantly worth while to pay the price of the best men. Materials, stook and machinery required for rilway extensions and many other works cannot yet