Parity in income will have to be attained by deliberately creating disparities in the rate of growth and total expenditure in favor of East Pakistan relatively to West Pakistan-an exact reversal of what had been done in the past'. How big these induced to remain disparity indeed; disparities in other two factors had to be would again depend on how soon we wanted to remove disparity in income.
Past policy in Pakistan had significantly (may be unconsciously) contributed to creating and aggravating disparity in income) a feature which made our disparity different from such disparity in other countries. Present and future policy must consciously and significantly contribute towards removing this disparity in income by creating and inducing wide disparities in the rate of growth and total expenditure in favor of East Pakistan, he added.
Meaning of total expenditure:
Asked to explain his use of the terms 'total expenditure' as against 'total investment Professor Huda emphasized that what mattered was total expenditure in the economy and not development expenditure called investment. All expenditure created and generated income development expenditure did it more, non-development expenditure less.
“Therefore if we want to remove inter-wing disparitics in income, we have to plan all expenditure with that object in view,” he said. It was found that a portion of total expenditure had to be located in a particular wing of the country on grounds other than economic, we should maneuvered the rest of the expenditure in such a way that it not only made its own contributions towards parity, but it is also country-acted any adverse effect on parity of the distribution of non-development expenditure.
“Only when the entire volume of expenditure is kept in view and thus planned. shall we make any progress towards attaining parity.
East wing must have the bigger plan.
Questioned on the efficacy of the maximum feasible development programme for East Pakistan on this task of remaining disparity. Professor IIuda rc-cmphasised that the East Pakistan programme would not only have to be maximum possible in an absolute sense, but what was more important, it would have to be as much larger as possible than the West Pakistan programme. This was the logical consequence of the constitutional obligation and there was no room whatsoever for any debate or opinion on the matter.
Will determine feasibility:
Asked whether such a large development programme as required for East Pakistan was feasible. Professor Huda expressed the view that feasibility was more a function of human volition and determination than of Natural limitations. “If we are determined to implement a programme because it is necessary in National interests, human ingenuity can surely find ways of doing so. Pakistan itself would never have come into existence if it were based on feasibility studies and not on people's determination.
The hollowness on the feasibility argument had been more than proved by the experience of East Pakistan in absorbing development funds during the last two years. If
