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dated July 28, 1958: Nehru’s call

Prime Minister Nehru said in New Delhi on July 26 that while India could not help making rapid strides towards industrialisation it would be fatal to ignore the requirements of food. India, he added, could not continue to depend on foreign imports for its food requirements without endangering its whole economy and slowing down the process of industrialisation. Mr. Nehru, who was addressing a meeting of the newly-constituted Board of the Bharat Sevak Samaj in New Delhi, said these were difficult problems and big problems which could not alone be solved by depending on Government whatever the resources of that Government might be and however hard the administration might work. Tasks of this magnitude required collaboration, and not merely co-operation of the people, he said and added that the Bharat Sevak Samaj had a great role to play.

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