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dated August 10, 1955: Durgapur Barrage opened

The Vice-President, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, has called upon the people to take interest and pride in the Five-Year Plan which, he said, was not a Government plan but a national plan. Declaring open the Durgapur Barrage at Durgapur on August 9, he said: "The country expects, from each one of us, not feebleness but efficiency, not grudging work but dedicated service." The Rs.23-crore project will irrigate over a million acres of arid land in West Bengal. Over 40 per cent of the approximately 1,550-mile long irrigation canals have already been dug and the work on the remainder is now in progress. The main left bank canal running for about 85 miles and joining the Hoogly will provide a permanent navigational waterway for steamers. "All work," said Dr. Radhakrishnan, "is sacred. What makes it sacred is the dedication and integrity of those who undertake it. The poverty and the unemployment are a challenge to democracy. We must work for a country with equal opportunities for all, a country in which comradeship, and not caste, will be the spirit of the nation, a country in which people refuse to rest content while poverty is the lot of the large majority. Work of this kind is worship. It is a secular form of sanctity."

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