Electricity and its Trade in India

A period of five years for the great destructive war is almost rolled on, turning the wheel of fortune on the side of our allies with all the brighter hopes for victory and peace, and I think, it is high time for us now to direct our sincere attention to one of our vital problems, for the salvation of India-the problem of Electricity-for which a thoughtful planning is essential for the post war India. Amongst various factors for the real salvation of a nation and a country I emphasize more upon the question of Electricity and its trade. A careful reading of history will reveal the truth of it, as I find that the economic salvation of the U.S.S.R. after the great war was made possible only through the adoption of a most comprehensive scheme of properly co-ordinated and planned electrification, which forms the corner stone of the plan for the industrialisation and technical reconstruction of modern Russia. I do not think it to be out of place here to refer to countries like Canada, U.S.A. and United kingdom, which made their tremendous headway into the great war only due to a most exhaustive development of electrical trade and industry. Germany also showed miracles in maintaining her existence even now in the face of tremendous odd opponents, only due to, as I think it to be, the excellence of the electrical side.