What I am suggesting it that we would have to be prepared for a deficit of a much higher order even on the revenue side. That itself should make us realise that there are very many problems which we have to face and that we have to undertake ways and means of increasing the resources of our country so that it might be possible for us to have a greater amount of surplus or a greater amount of public saving for the purpose of financing capital development. The finance minister in the course of his speech, Mr. Deputy Minister, pointed out that the deficits during the past two years were of the order of Rs. 83 Crores. I venture humbly to disagree with him because I feel that when we are talking of deficits, we must take into account the overall deficit incurred by the Central Government and that would be the order of Rs. 200 Crores. During the years of relatively light expenditure we had a shortfall of about Rs. 200 Crore. Undoubtedly, now when we are going to have a very great amount of expenditure, we might have a greater amount of deficit and we would have to find out ways and means of trying to meet our capital expenditure. My point is that the deficit on revenue account would be of the order of about Rs. 19 to 20 Crores. Therefore, Sir, the objective of this bill is very important. As I said, it is important not only from the point of view of the welfare of the worker, of his right to leisure, but also from the point of view of the safety of our roads. In view of this, Sir, and in view of the fact that it is hardly quite safe, if the driver himself is not quite alert and his nerves are not quite fresh, it will spell disaster for the road users. In view of this, the joint select committee has wisely rejected the classification that was orginally proposed in the bill. Time and again, we have discussed this question of accidents, and I was really painted to see how the minister tried to minimise the seriousness of the railway accidents. He also quoted in the other house the figures, the number of accidents that are taking place in other countries, particularly America and England. The conditions that are obtaining in these countries and that are obtaining in India are totally different. There, many of the accidents take place not because of follies, not because of the limitations under which those railways work, but mostly because of the environment that there has been in those countries.
