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 ECONOMIG DEVELOPMENT 569 or replaced so ha far heavier rain-loads can be carried. The useful expenditure on.railways eanno be 9ut at less than 500 ereres of rupees and a program should be drawn up for expending this sum within twenty years. Then there is irrigation. New main canals are seepage. The building of pucca village water-courses will pay in many districts, but will cost a great deal. Where perennial rivers cannot be turned into canals, rivers. need sections The existing re-alignment in should be canals and their distributaries. many places, and in certain lined with concrete to prevent here are pumping enormous tanks and to be constructed; wells with oil-engine pumps are neeclod, schemes to be initiated; numerous smaller ones and a va.t number of for Government must advance most of the cost to zemindars or co-operative Societies. In all, at least 400 oreres of rupees could well be spent on irrigation. But this is not all. Mr. Howard of drawn attention to the extent is lost in and want to which India by soil oresion, on ho one o! drainage on ho ohor hand. hroughou ho drains have to be excavated 100 oreres are development of uld existing forests another very profitably be spent. according to a comprehensive plan, and must be nado to zomindars to provide the village drains, and to construct bunds and terraces to stop erosion. This work is not so expensive, but at least needed. Upon afforestation and the We also want big warehouses and granario at; all railway stations serving markets; and we want silos in every village to store fodder for oattie. We want moro telegraphs and telephones; more eelleges, schools 72 100 oreres Pusa has soil fertility hand country advances some remain village which needed for tapping the Indus, Sarda, Gogra, and other