Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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II. The principal administrative methods followed or contemplated for the
execution of the work referred to in I, and any legal provisions relating to such work.
(Has the work in question been carried out, or is it being, or to be, carried out
on behalf of or by the order of a central, regional or local or other authority, or on
behalf of a company holding a concession from public services, or on behalf of private
persons receiving a grant from the public authorities? Is such work being carried
out directly by the authorities, or by contract, etc.?)
III. The principal methods employed for financing such work.
(Is the expenditure on the work charged to the ordinary or the extraordinary
budget of the State, the budget of regional or local administrations, the budgets of
public bodies, etc., or is it financed by an internal or external loan? Security of such
loans; plans of repayment, etc.)
IV. An estimate, as far as is possible, of the allocation of expenditure on the
execution of the public works referred to in I, as between materials and equipment
provided by national or foreign industries, on the one hand, and labour—that is to
say, wages and miscellaneous social expenditure—on the other.
V. The Government’s opinion with regard to the effects obtained or expected
from the execution of the public works referred to in I on the resumption of economic
and industrial activities and on unemployment.
Governments are requested to forward their replies, and any documentation
annexed thereto, in triplicate.
Classification of Public Works by Catfgories.
(a) Roads and bridges.
(b) Railway lines, including tramways, metropolitan railways, etc. (If possible,
mention the more important construction works separately.)
(c) Complete agricultural land reclamation (drainage, irrigation, construction
of dwelling-houses and various new buildings, or establishment of entire new settle¬
ments, country roads and other works connected with land settlement).
(d) Canals and other inland waterways (including improvement work on rivers,
defensive work against floods, etc.). (Work not already included under (c).)
(e) Rand improvement work, bringing of new land under cultivation, re¬
afforestation, etc. (Work not already included under (c).)
(f) Provision of drinking-water supplies and sewage disposal. (Work not
already included under (c).)
(g) Work carried out in sea and river ports, including mechanical equipment
of such ports.
(h) Work for the establishment of air ports.
(i) Building and construction work forming part of a general plan and carried
out (or to be carried out) with the participation or approval of public authorities,
classified according to category (administrative buildings, dwelling-houses, etc.).
(Work not already included under (c).)
(j) Electric installations, hydro-electric and heating power centres, motive-
power transmission.
(k) Gasworks and long-distance gas supply.
(l) Telegraph and telephone installations, wireless broadcasting stations.
(m) Other work.