পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/২৪৫

215 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড Foreign Aid to Pakistan Chinese loan to Pakistan U. S $ 60m in 1965 mostly spent in West Pakistan including a Heavy Machinery Complex costing U.S. $ 9m but only U.S. $ 125,000 for East Pakistan Water & Power Development. But the loan is to be repaid by exporting jute and jute products. World Bank credits in 1954 $ 14m and in 1965 $ 15 m for Sui gas project in West Pakistan. Same source supplied $ 1.7m in 1964 for Karachi Port development and $30m to Pakistan Investment and Credit Corporation to finance mostly projects in West Pakistan. International Development Association (U. N. Agency) gave a credit of $5m to West Pakistan and $4.5 m to East Pakistan in 1964 for educational projects. Russian Aid of $llm to S18m was given to West Pakistan in 1965 for oil prospecting. U. K. Loan during the period 1947-1965 amounted to £64m has been spent mostly in West Pakistan. U. S. Aid of $ 3.6 billion- $2.7 billion spent for Mangla Dam & Tarbela Dam in West Pakistan and only $ 0.9 billion for control of flood in East Pakistan. These loans no doubt converted the barren lands of the West into fertile ones whereas very little was done to tackle effective ely the flood problem of East Pakistan- the most fertile land in the world. The people of East Pakistan had been allowed to suffer from recurring cyclones and flood disasters since 1953. COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT West Pakistan East Pakistan Established Industries in both wings 1947/8 1966/7 1947/48 1966/67 Cotton Textile production 350 6,836 508 550 in million yards 1,853% Increase 8.25% Increase Sugar production 1() 304 25 112 in '000 tons 2,943%. Increase 348%. Increase Cement production 305 1,934 46 75 in '000 tons 53.4% Increase 63% Increase Above tables clearly shown how the established industries in East Pakistan had been allowed to grow extremely slowly in comparison with the extremely fast growing industries in the West. In 1947 East Pakistan had more industries than West. With the influx of Capitalists from Bombay the picture began to change rapidly. In the field of new industries the percentage of investment in West and East Pakistan is roughly 75% and 25% respectively. Moreover, East Pakistani industries are mainly owned and controlled by the West Pakistanis whose main interest is to transfer the profits to West Pakistan instead of helping East Pakistan's prosperity. It has been calculated that since 1947 the real transfer of resources from East to West to the tune of $3,000 million.