Discusses problems relating to selection of personnel suitable for various stages of development of industries and enumerates the handicaps faced by management in delays caused in the importation of machineries and suggests ways and means to conversion of craftsmanship of personnel to be in consonance with the types of machines and equipments imported under barter or loan agreements. Emphasis has been laid on givinc, due consideration to temperament and aptitude of personnel for each job, desirability of maintaining operating manuals and need for apprentice training. It is pointed out how indiscriminate transfers of personnel from one site to another or from one equipment to another adversely affects the maintenance efficiency.