In the present political circumstances, it is impossible to predict what might constitute a sufficient set of conditions for a normalization process to being. There are, however, a number of necessary conditions which-it would seem have to be put in any case.
Firstly, it is most unlikely that any significant movement in the direction of normality will occur until there is a drastic reduction in the visibility, and preferably even the presence-of the military and a reestablishment of a normal civilian administration in East Bengal.
Secondly, the food problem must be solved. For the present, this means programming the massive imports which will be required over the next six-perhaps the next twelve, months, and re-establishing-by some combination of permanent and temporary measures—an adequate transport and distribution system.
Thirdly, any remaining available resources must be directed first to rehabilitation and reconstruction and to breaking the most important and most persistent Physical and organizational bottlenecks impeding efforts to get the economy going again.
