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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 manufacturing
 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: secondary
 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 transmission
 . . . . . . . . . 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. MAHALAvols.
 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]

Mahalanobis II - pag 16