Announcement of Mission to India on November 1, 1951

IN'!'EBNATIONAL l3ANK FOR ·BECONS!'RUCTION AND D~9ELOFMENT F9R THE PBESS .FOB IMMEDIATE BELFA~E Press Release No.· 270 November l, .1~5~ T"he tnternational :Bank for Reconstruction and Development announced ioday that at the request of the Government .it is send~ jng a mission to India. The group will re-assess the country's economlo and f+nancial position, examine the plannins, financing and execution of.India's development prosram, and repo~t to the Bank on any projects the Government may submit for 1ts atte:;::L..:a~ The group will leave by air on November 2 and plailS to stay • in India for six weeks. WiU~m ·Koster., .Loan Officer, will he&d ~e mission; ~er mem·bers are Antonin J3aech., Chief of the Asia Division of the Economic Dep~nt, M. F. Perkins, agricultural economist of the Economic Department, an.d W1Uiam D. s.• Fraser., of the Loan Department. '