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dated May 9, 1957: Khrushchev's new plan

Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Party leader, has proposed the abolition of more than 20 Ministries as part of a national plan to revolutionise Soviet production and management. He said in Moscow on May 7 that 92 national economic councils, which would assume the major function of planning and co-ordinating Soviet output, should be established. The councils would assume many of the functions of the disbanded Ministries. The 20 Ministries concerned represent over one-third of all Soviet industrial administration centred in Moscow. Of more than 30 Soviet Ministries concerned with industrial production and the processing of raw materials, Mr. Khrushchev has proposed the retention of only eight.

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