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With any assumed target of production for any particular 
industry in any given year, it is possible to estimate the total 
number of engaged persons and hence the number of profes- 
sional staff, engineers and scientists. Requirements of engi- 
neers and technical personnel were estimated in this way for 
purposes of perspective planning. 
Expansion of technical staff: Appropriate action was taken 
to expand the capacity of existing scientific and technological 
institutions and to establish new institutions all over the country 
to ensure a sufficiently rapid expansion of scientific and tech- 
nical personnel. The following table shows the new admis- 
sions into universities and higher educational institutions of the 
university standard in science and technology. 
TABLE 
1dmissions into higher degree level institutions in science ana 
technology 
subject 
[. Science. 
2. Engineering 
3. Medicine . 
+. Agriculture 
5. Total 
1950-51 1960-61 1965-66 1975-76 
n thousand: 
J 
1950-51 1960-61 1055-68 
as percentage of 1950 
700 
00 
530 
227 
356 
24C 
396 
625 
320 
“ec 
1975 76 
figures 
518 
i,750 
800 
750 
20 
On the whole the planning for scientific and technical man- 
power, particularly for engineering, has been quite satisfactory 
in India. For example, the new admissions in engin:zring 
‘ncreased from 4,000 a vear in 330-51 to 300 Tr in 
_15] Mahalanobis II - pag. 17