Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

M. H. Gopal

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Research in social sciences in general, and in India in particular is still an infant; so expansion and improvement in the quality and volume of social investigations, especially in backward countries, are essential. For, in them social modes, institutions and prejudices have a significant impact on political, economic and other societal problems. There is also the extreme urgency of changing and improving the pattern of such research.

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M. H. Gopal

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This section takes as a given the floor-area basis operating currently in the Indian Railways.While adopting or ending the floor-area in the economic disadvantages and leg complications are to be minimised, the following considerations have to be kept in mind; as they facilitate the operation of the is :- (1) Where the is limited competition for other carriers such as roads and water-ways;
(2) Where the commodity has little of an native markets;

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M. H. Gopal

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THIS essay is in five sections, the last three of which are apparently contradictory but in fact each has a distinct objective. While the first section provide a factual background, the second analyses two important implications of the floor area basis. The third action discusses the feasibility of the basis for a commodity like firewood; the next one takes as given the current operation of the basis and indicates desirable changes to make it more acceptable, while the fifth section doubts the wholesale applicability of the principles enunciated by the Inter-State Commerce Commission in the context of a competitive well-developed economy such as U. S. A. to a controlled underdeveloped one like India and suggests an alternative set of values and principles.This analysis takes firewood merely as an illustration of the problem, difficulties and solutions of the floor area basis of charging.

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