4g SOCIAL SCIENTIST 14 See, Cheryl Payer, The Debt Trap, Monthly Review Press, 1974, p 178- 79. 15 This has been mentioned in a note prepared by the Financial Adviser, Ministry of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Ramaswamy R lyer, on 12 May 1978. 16 George Woods's successor, Robert McNamara, had raised similar doubts, mentioned in Ramaswamy R Ivor's note. 17 During this period, USAID had been advancing commodity assistance to encourage fertilizer imports by the Third World; see various 1966 and 1967 issues of Nitrogen,]oumal of the British Sulphur Corporation. 18 The figures have been taken from the Nangal Expansion Project. 19 See in particular sections 2.01 to 2.38 20 Guidelines for Procurement Under World Bank and IDA Credits, July 1980. 21 The Working Group set up to evaluate the initial tenders submitted by the competing firms and make a short list, had prepared a list of firms which had constructed or were constructing ammonia plants of capacity more than 1000 tonnes per day. It had also mentioned the number of plants of 1350 tonnes per day capacity that had been built by each of the firms. Report of the Working Group on Pre-Qualification of Engineering Consultants for the Nitrogenous Fertilizer Complex to be erected South of Bombay (copy laid on the table ofLok Sabha during the discussion, sec LT No. 2311/80). 22 The Fertilizer (Planning and Development) India Ltd., The Nangal Expansion Project, Completion Report, Section 3.0, p 6 ff.