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dated October 7, 1955: Hindustan Machine Tools

Inaugurating the Hindustan Machine Tools Ltd. at Jalahalli, eight miles from Bangalore, on October 6, Prime Minister Nehru pointed out that all big industrial undertakings, whether in the private or public sector, should be looked upon as a large partnership, where everybody working there, to whatever grade he or she belonged, was a partner in a great national undertaking, the biggest undertaking of all, namely, the building up of New India. "The more India grows in industry, the more you will find there is cooperation with other countries. It is a completely mistaken idea to imagine that a country, as it grows and becomes self-sufficient in its production, will deal less with other countries." The Prime Minister emphasised that people of all grades, in whatever walk of life, must have a feeling of having a function, something almost approaching to a mission. It was bad for a human being not to have a function. "Give a man a function and you will have given him a dose of life. We want to do things big in India and I hope with that feeling of function we will certainly be able to do things big." Mr. Nehru also referred to the association of the Swiss firm of Oerlikons with the working of the Hindustan Machine Tools, and said that the Government of India welcomed this type of close cooperation.

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