Indian Roads

The following points are worthy of note-

1. The agricultural population of India say over 200,000,000 live on the border-line of poverty due largely to the absence of roads and cheap road communication.

2. In the past ten years there has been practically no increase in the expenditure upon such few and bad roads as exist, although there has been an increased use of them;

3. The Indian Administration takes in motor taxes nearly twice as much as is expended on roads. (According figures given by the Hon. Mr. R. H. Parker at the Annual meeting of the Indian Roads and Transport Development Association, June last in Bombay).