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This book gives a brief summary of the management of industrial and socio-economic information already introduced or being planned by the Union Government. Based on the author's comprehensive experience at the helm of information management, it begins with a coverage of information sources of a statistical and socio-economic kind. It then proceeds to cover data bank for industrial planning and also standardisation of commodity codes of industrial information as examples of information planning. Thereafter, the book narrates three elucidative frameworks for a national information system relating to technology management, industry and the social sciences, The book ends by giving a round up on the use of the computer as a tool for information management in particular and for socio economic control in general Dr. Banerjee's book would be useful as a course book for training programmes both foundational and professional organised by government and for those involved in management development.