I very much welcome the budget that has been presented by the hon. Finance minister. In doing so, I would like to address myself to one important aspect of budget making. The budget goes a thousand ways to the root of the prosperity of individuals, to the relation between classes and to the strength of the government themselves. The present budget, apart from the arithmetic of it, must also solve the problems that are facing the country today and I am certain that we shall go the right way in solving them. The congress governments are in charge of the country. We have got a name, an ideal and a programme and we have to reach the ideal. The congress has stood all these years for the creation of a cooperative commonwealth which was called Ram Rajya by the father of the nation. Now, in this budget if we can find any thing that will go towards that ideal, we shall be very much satisfied. The present budget, I feel, is good in one way, in that it is establishing a new precedent, that is, taxing in order to meet the capital requirements of the country. This is a very important feature to which every well wisher in this country ought to subscribe. The congress working committee some time last year passed a resolution requesting the government of India to appoint a national planning commission. Its objectives are a just order of society, progressive increase in the standard of living, best utilization of the resources of the country and regional and national self sufficiency. The government and the country were good enough to respond and today we have a national planning commission which is striving hard to give us a short-term plan and a long-term plan. My hon. Friend, Dr. Mookerjee, was bitterly complaining that there is no short-term programme for the government. Anybody who has seen the budgets of the state governments as well as that of the central government will find that they are not devoid of such plans. Really, there are a number of schemes which have begun to fructify or which are going to fructify in the very near future and therefore the complaint that everything has been left to starvation is not correct. Then, there is no gainsaying the fact that the country is really in a bad economic situation. Everybody knows it. We know that there is poverty and that poverty is increasing on account of a number of circumstances, including the pressure of population, which is peculiar not only to our country but to a number of other Asian countries. I very much welcome the budget that has been presented by the hon. Finance minister. In doing so, I would like to address myself to one important aspect of budget making. The budget goes a thousand ways to the root of the prosperity of individuals, to the relation between classes and to the strength of the government themselves. The present budget, apart from the arithmetic of it, must also solve the problems that are facing the country today and I am certain that we shall go the right way in solving them. The congress governments are in charge of the country. We have got a name, an ideal and a programme and we have to reach the ideal. The congress has stood all these years for the creation of a cooperative commonwealth which was called Ram Rajya by the father of the nation. Now, in this budget if we can find any thing that will go towards that ideal, we shall be very much satisfied. The present budget, I feel, is good in one way, in that it is establishing a new precedent, that is, taxing in order to meet the capital requirements of the country. This is a very important feature to which every well wisher in this country ought to subscribe. The congress working committee some time last year passed a resolution requesting the government of India to appoint a national planning commission. Its objectives are a just order of society, progressive increase in the standard of living,