India Most Highly Taxed In World’

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 2

India Most Highly Taxed In World’

India is the world’s most highly-taxed country, and it is the middle classes which are most affected by taxation, according to Miss Eunice Anchees, the general secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Bombay. Miss Anchees is at present in Christchurch.

“A lot is being done for the underprivileged by the Government and other organisations. The rich are all right, of course, but the middle classes have a position to maintain and they find it a struggle,” she said.

others, said Miss Anchees. In addition the Y.W.C.A. gave nutrition lectures to other organisations which hold classes for women. As well as this scheme, the association has three centres where about 70 schoolchildren are given supplementary diet snacks. The association also runs nursery schools, educational, literacy, and handicraft classes. Miss Anchees spent last year as general secretary of the Perth Y.W.C.A. She has been a member of the Bombay association for more than 20 years and has worked in Canada and England. After leaving New Zealand, she will return to Bombay.

The problems facing Bombay were found throughout India, but because Bombay was a commercial area and the home of industries from textiles and canning to steel and rubber, the problems were greater. People felt they could find jobs there and were coming in from all directions, with the result that houses were hard to get and slums were growing rapidly. Balanced Diet

their women to attend regularly. The classes were taken by two qualified nutritionists and Miss Anchees said much progress was being made. The women are taught the values of food, and how to produce low-cost meals from readily available vegetables and the best methods of cooking to retain minerals and proteins. Passed On The knowledge the women gained was passed on to

The work of the Y.W.CA. covered all strata of society, and a lot was being done in nutritional education among the underprivileged.

Each week 10 or 12 groups of women and girls came to learn the rudiments of balanced diet and how tn make the best use of the food available, said Miss Anchees. Their menfolk had recognised the importance of good nutrition and encouraged