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only 0.6 per cent of engineers. In contrast, aircraft assembling 
and repair requires a high proportion of about 5.5 per cent of 
engineers but practically no scientists. 
TABLE 3 
Technical personnel in selected industries: samble survey of ma- 
nufacturing industries, 1956 
industries 
percentage of total employment 
professional engineers scientists 
2) 
(3) 
(4) 
1. Rice milling . . 
2. Cotton textiles . . . . | 
3. Glass and glassware . . . 
4. Tea manufacturing . . . . . 
5. Aluminium, copper, brass: secon- 
dary products . . . 
0.87 
0.90 
0.99 
2.3G 
0.08 
0.12 
O.IC 
"1 
0.00 
0.5T 
0.18 
0.03 
2.49 
2.65 
2.58 
0.51 
0.05 
0.471 
6. Sugar . . . . . . . . . 
7. General engineering and electrical 
engineering . . . . . . . . 
Paints and varnishes . . . . . 
Cement . . . . . ..- 
Petroleum refining 
rr. Electricity generation and trans- 
mission . . . . . . . . . 6.50 
12. Iron and steel: primary products 5.70 
13. Railway wagon manufacturing . 8.46 
I4. Aircraft assembling and repair . 9.03 
15. Chemicals (including drugs) . 0.90 
2.02 
0.31 
0.89 
1.55 
0.0I 
3-47 
I.12 
2.40 
4.79 0.04 
2.86 0.58 
3.02 0.21 
5-47 0.00 
0.62 2.06 
Source: Occupational Pattern in Manufacturing Industries, India 1956 by 
PITAMBAR PANT and M. VAsUDEVAN with a foreword by P. C. MAHALA- 
vols. Planning Commission, Government of India, 1959. 
In col. (2) ‘professional’ stands for all professional, technical and 
related workers. In col. (3) ‘engineers’ cover architects and surveyors. 
[n col. (4) ‘scientists’ stand for chemists, phvsicists. geologists and 
yther phvsical scienticts 
4] 
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