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2'44 RATIONAUZATION IN I~DlAN'BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
regard to the cheap Soviet oil that is alleged to have been
•• dumped" into India by the latter during 1927-28 the
B. O. C. could therefore command all the advantages of
international alliance while claiming protection before the
Indian Tariff Board.17 But the Board. be it observed
incidentally. disallowed the claim as economically unjustifiable.
Secondly. in regard to tech:riique also the
B. O. C. is well rationalized. Its oil.fields are electri.
lied. and its refineries, located at Rangoon. are connected
by lines of pipes with the oil· fields far away.
Ifratiollaiization is so prominent in the mineral oil
industry it IS conspicuous by its absence in coal. which as
power is allied to it in economic life. The recommendations
of the Indian Coal Committee appointed by the
Government to inquire into the coal situation were publishedin
1925. And from these one obtains an idea as
to the technological and organizational backwardness of
the industry. There are 'many collieries where mechani.
cal coal-cutters are unknown. The introduction of more
mechanical appliances is therefore one of the' primary
suggestions of the Coal Committee. Another defect
which arrested the attention of the Committee consists
in the fact that the coal raised is not loaded immediately
into wagons. It is stacked for some time and' latet
loaded by hand. The CQmmittee has recommended the
~mployment of mechariicaI loading appliances as well as
the loading of coal as soon as the material is raised. These
two technical shortcomings are combined with a t}:ird one
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to render coal-:ilining in India. among other reason~.
economically incapable of maintaining its own even on the
17 India ,in 1928-29 (Calcutta 1930). p. 178.