The readjustment of centrai and provincial finance.
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diffioulties had to be dealt with ili hearty sword-and-buckler style. The timo has now come, however, for a public audit, especially as the working of the scheme since its introduction in 1921-22 has been greeted with an almost unanimous chorus of criticism and disappointment. Nolhing can be done by the wave of a magician's wand, and we have to get at the truth through the eminently non-political method of statistics. Ali thing considered, inequalit.y does exist and the righting of that inequality is now the great problem of Ind ian Public Finance.