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PAKISTAN OBSERVER
28 December. 1962
“DISPARITY NOT A DEAD HORSE”
Disparity in per capita income between East and West Pakistan was not a “dead horse". It was very much alive, big and growing and would never die a natural death.
This was stated in Dacca on Thursday by Professor M. N. Huda, Member. Planning Commission, when contacted by our special correspondent on the controversy raised by the Radio talk of Mr. Saeed Hasan. Deputy Chairman. Planning Commission,
When declining to be dragged into unnecessary public controversy on settled issues Professor Huda, however, agreed to answer any specific question on the issues as such on many of which his views had already been expressed several times.
Questioned first as to the status of the statement of Mr. Saeed Hasan, Professor Huda mentioned that this was his (Mr. Hasan's) own statement and not a policy statement on behalf of the Planning Commission.
Disparity has to be killed deliberately:
Professor Huda who is currently touring East Pakistan to review the progress of development work, said in reply to a question that realizing this disparity would never die a natural death, the Government had decided to kill it deliberately. Since this killing could not be done outright, the decision was to inject a slow process of poisoning over a period of time “shortest possible” according to the constitution.
Elaborating, Professor Huda stated that the essence of this process lay in formulating and implementing our future national development plan in such a way as to ensure a much larger share of expenditure in East then in West Pakistan. This was the cure of the matter; and how soon disparity in income would be removed would depend on (a) how much larger the East Pakistan programme would be both in public and private sectors relatively to West Pakistan and (b) how the so-called nondevelopment expenditure of various types incurred by the Government was distributed between East and West Pakistan.
Parity in per capita income is the goal:
Questioned further, Professor Huda identified three possible parties in this connection-parity in rate of growth, parity in total expenditure and parity in per capita income. “Parity in per capita income is our agreed objective, and it is this parity, and either of the other two which is 'co-terminus' with our perspective plan.
