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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 professional
 staff, engineers and scientists. Requirements of engineers
 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 technical
 personnel. The following table shows the new admissions
 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 manpower,
 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