ELECTRIFICATION OF KERALA 63 15 For instance, Dewan Thomas Austin^s statements in the Assembly (Proceedings of the Sri Mulam Popular Assembly of Trauancore, 28th Session, p 13). Dewan Mohammed Habibullah's address to the joint meeting of the Sri Mulam Assembly and Sri Chitra State Council in January 1935, (Proceedings of the Sri Mulam Assembly, First Assembly, 4th Session, p 534). Also sec. Proceedings of the Travancore Sri Mulam Assemble (Second Assembly, Third Session, vol II, p 479) 16 Travancore Administration Report for the year 1118 ME (1942-43 AD) p 121. 17 Statements in the assembly by K. P Padmanabha Menon, Electrical Engineer, and C P Ramaswamy lyer, Dewan of Travancore, Proceedings of Sri Mulam Assembly, First Session, vol XXIV pp 297 and 303. 18 The National Council of Applied Economic Research in its Techno-Economic Survey held a similar view. ^The alternative approach, which is the more feasible one for Kerala is to consider power generation itself as an industry and to develop the state's abundant hydro-power resources to the maximum extent possible... Planning for a power surplus and export of electrical energy to the neighbouring states should, therefore, form the keynote of the future power development policy" (National Council of Applied Economic Research, Techno-Economic Survey of Kerala 1962,p 110) 19 See Proceedings of the Travancore Sri Mulam Assembly, Third Assembly, First Session, vol XXIV, pp 294-95 and 301-303. w Travancore Administration Report for the year 1187 ME (1941-42 AD) p 100. 21 Since 1941-42, the Government of Travancore discontinued publishing detailed data on the source of power used by industrial concerns.