Mr. Deputy speaker, Sir, this short bill seeking to make certain amendments to the Indian (tariff) act with a view to granting protection to the power and distribution transformers industry and to continue or discontinue protection to certain other industries seems to suggest that it is not very much other than routine business. Sir, it is true that government come forward with amendments to the tariff act now and then and try to claim that they have come here to give protection to certain national industries. Sir, we all urge that the paramount necessity of our country is industrialisation, and therefore, any government action which might seek to improve the process of industrialisation in our country is commendable. But as some of the speakers have already said, when government have brought forward this bill, they should have given a report as to the action they have taken for the development of these particular industries. You know, Sir, and I want to emphasise it, they by mere continuation of the protective duty for all time to come, it is not possible to industrialise our country. We have to go to duty the basic needs of the industry. Sir, as the hon. Friend who spoke first on this bill said, government proposed that they were going to appoint a committee to go into he entire cost structure and see whether there was any possibility of the further development and further utilisation of the productive power o this particular industry. Therefore, I feel when the government have come forward with such an amendment, they should give us a report as to what action they have taken and whether they actually appointed a committee to look into all these problems. Sir, the first point has been already discussed some. It is now well known that we have adopted the principle of the welfare state and that we now look up to. Hitherto, we had revenue surpluses which were a form of public saving and which were meant to be utilised for capital development. Hereafter, this form of revenue surplus would not be available.
