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THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA 187
Country
Germany
Japan
India
State
53,623
13,387
45,749
Private
4,559
5,372
18,163
Finally, we have a third group in which the private system
is much more extensive than the state, as indicated
below:
Country State Private
France 11,185 32,097
Sweden 6,315 9,793
Argentina 7,078 29,683
It is interesting to observe that Norway does not
.agree with Sweden. Nor do France and Germany belong
to the same group. And it is clear also that the preponderance
of the state-ownership (and/or state-management)
is well distributed throughout the different nooks
and corners of the world. Geographically, ethnologically
or politically there is hardly anything in common between
the countries where this relative proportion between state
and private systems obtains.
India happens to find herself in this company and it
is a part of the political or economic philosophy of her
pationalists to push, forward this trend to its furthest logical
consequence. It is questionable, however, if pure
. theory can demonstrate the exclusive virtues of the one
..or.the other system. But should India happen to possess
more political freedom and thus succeed in removing the
unnecessarily high-salaried foreigners from the different
public services including railway administration there is a
possibility of achieving tremendous economy in the public