Report of The Engineering Personnel Committee

Abstract

An important result of the first five year plan has been the awareness created in the public mind of the problem of technical manpower in the context of planning. The large demand on the nation’s resources of scientific and technical personnel during the first plan period could not be met by the available training facilities. As the Planning Commission has put it, Experience in the first five year plan bears out the fact that even in the more developed States, a moderate expansion in the development programme to be undertaken soon strains the available resources of technical personnel, especially at the higher .levels In particular, acute shortages of engineering skills came to the surface in the last five years so often that it was considered essential for the success of the second five year plan, with its emphasis on heavy industry and transport, to analyse the supply and demand for engineering personnel.