MORE ROADS FOR INDIA.
CEYLON. May :!1. Progress in the development "f roadill India wa«- reviewed at the annual meeting at Bombay recently of the Indian lJoad- ami Tran-port D<*veloji. meiit Association. The United Provinces take- j.ride of place in programmes of road development under way. It drew up la-t year a programme e-timated to cost Us. 97 lakhs, which will take six year* to complete. The necessary funds will come from the -hare due to the province from the Koad Development Fund supplemented by a special loan to be repaid from future allotments from the fund in the next "Ju years. In Bengal a s]>e-:ia officer is preparing a programme to linV ii{> outlying di-tricts. Madras s -even year programme. Bombay Pre-i dency is now making up for delay . ; -pbstantial programme having l.eei .approved by the Government of India.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 11
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