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dated January 5, 1957: Ceiling on income

Prime Minister Nehru has firmly rejected the suggestion for fixation of ceiling on individual incomes. What the State could do and ought to do was to provide equality of opportunity for all and, thereafter, it should be left to the individual to utilise the opportunity to his and the community's best advantage. Addressing the Subjects Committee at the Congress session in Lakshmibai Nagar (Indore) on January 4, he said that in the conditions existing in India to-day it would be wrong to take away this incentive, which was essential for progress. Even in countries where this incentive was curbed, they had found it necessary to reverse the process. But he agreed that a minimum standard should be laid down and every effort must be made by the State to secure this standard for all. If this objective was pursued, all other aspects like fixation of ceiling, etc., would be logically covered. Any artificial attempt to impose ceilings would only encourage corruption, wrong tendencies of deception and evasion.

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