merely cut the t's and dotted the is. He has given up nothing new worth the name in any sphere of life, whether in the matter of education or medical relief or industry, but he has given us more promises and promises in abundance, but without any fulfillment. He has said that he has set up a development Board, but the Board has not developed anything. He has said that he has set up an Advisory Planning Board, but the Board has planned nothing as yet. He has proposed to set up an Industrial Finance Corporation, but it is yet to mature. He has stated that he is going to set up an Industrial Research Institute, but it is yet under consideration, and the Budget, therefore, Sir, is a Budget of speculation and of little actual performance. Six months have elapsed since the establishment of the free State of Pakistan and I regret to have to say that nothing has been done tangible in the way of Planning and time is essence of any Planning. He has pointed out, and we all know, that over 70 per cent of the produce of jute in this Sub-continent is from Pakistan and there no jute mills worth the name in Pakistan. While he has done nothing, he has not even taken any tangible steps to set up any jute mill to cope with the production of jute in Eastern Pakistan. He has told us, and you all know there are few cotton mills in Pakistan and the production of staple cotton there is a very large in quantity. I wish he did something to establish cotton mills or increase the number of cotton mills in Pakistan so that our resources might be better realized. These are, Sir, my first reactions to the Budget.
The next thing to which I take objection to in the Budget is the encroachment on the rights of the Provincial Governments. He has proposed to take over in proceeds of the Estate duty from the Provinces. Sir, this raises very important issues, and on behalf of the Provincial Governments I think it is my duty to protest in this House against this encroachment by the Centre on the provincial sphere. Sir, we are going to have a Federation of the Autonomous States of Pakistan and these taxation proposals of the Honorable the Finance Minister strike at the very root of the autonomy of the federating units which we cannot look at with any sense of pleasure or equanimity. I must, therefore, sound a note of warning to the Central Government, that if they continue encroaching like this, the Provincial Government will took at these measures as a starting kick of the Honorable the Finance Minister and I hope he will consider the matter...
Mr. Abul Matin Choudhury (East Bengal: Muslim):.... I congratulate, Sir, the Honourable the Defence Minister on the steps that he had already taken for the nationalization of the Pakistan Army, but I suggest to him. Sir, it in making recruit for the officers' rank in the Army, Navy and the Air Force of Pakistan, he should see to it. Sir, that the Eastern Pakistan makes the necessary contribution. Defence, Sir, is a responsibility common to all the citizens of the State and there is no dearth of suitable candidates from among the millions of people in the Eastern Pakistan for officer's rank in the Army. When I speak of Eastern Pakistan, Sir, I do not speak in a spirit of provincialism. I hold the view, Sir, that interests of the State of Pakistan transcend every other consideration-sectional, parochial or provincial-and that we must suppress all disruptive in every sphere of life. if Pakistan is to survive as a compact and homogeneous State, but, Sir, that should not preclude as from ventilating the grievances of the part of the country with which we are familiar and about the conditions of which we have special knowledge.
