The increased labour wages, introduction of provident fund and bonus and several other provisions of the labour act are standing in the way of development and progress of the coffee industry. Sir, our coffee production is not much and we are not able to cope with the foreign competition. Sir, with a view to earning more and more foreign exchange, our government are exporting more and more coffee. With that object in view, they have closed almost all coffee houses in India. Now, we have neither the home nor the external market for our coffee. The prices obtaining in the external market are lower than the prices obtaining in India. The measure before the house is intended to remove some grave deficiencies in our arrangements for the training of technical personnel. At any time, in any country it would be a mater of very great importance that for the functioning of its industries there should be technical personnel of satisfactory quality and in adequate numbers. For India, at this stage of her economic development, when the country is making the maximum effort for rapid industrialisation with a view to achieving what we call self-sustaining progress, there is nothing more important, among the requisites for the success of our plans, than this one factor of the availability of suitably trained personnel in sufficient numbers. This deficiency has persisted for some time. It has been brought to our notice by several committes that we should try to persuade the employers to make arrangements for the training of apprentices. The committee, of course, touched the question of institutional training also. Defects are to be removed in the case of boht kinds of training, viz, institutional training and apprentice training. Regarding institutional training, in the course of past ten years we have succeeded in making adequate arrangements. We had the experiences, in the course of the tenth plan and also, I should say.
