report recommends that road transport should be used for noncompetitive and feeder road services. It is mentioned that road competi has cost the railways about £3,000-
000. and that this loss is likely to be doubled shortly unless action is taken.
Though the report stresses the value of ce-operation between rail and road services this will be impossible until chaotic conditions in the road services are ended and both forms of transport are regulated as public services.
Other points from the report are:
The history of State management in India is mot encouraging and it seems clear that present methods are unsatisfactory. If the only choice lay between a continuance of private management and an extension of State management on existing lines, the Committee would strongly recommend the former.
Any further exercise by the Gov. ernment of its option to take over company-managed lines should be deferred until the end of 1945, to give the Federal railway authority an opportunity of consolidating its posi-
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