ABSTRACT
In practice, in the first development plans most of development schemes fell either in the category financed directly from metropolitan government grants, such as cd & w schemes or fides projects, or in that of detailed individual schemes put forward as part of the departmental plans and which had been accepted unchanged. Development progress reports for the second development plan starting in 1952 were therefore changed to coincide with the budgetary year. In the first stages, the implementation of the plans the normal procedure of annual budgeting has usually been considered sufficient in many of the British territories to ensure that the schemes approved were carried out within the limits of the available finance and of the available men and materials. The supervisory authorities specially established to ensure the implementation of the plans differ widely in their main features. They may be simply the original Development Planning Committee, whose duties were defined to include those of a supervisory body.
