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dated June 22, 1959 ( there being no issue dated June 23, 1959): Industrial progress

Prime Minister Nehru, addressing a public meeting in Jubbulpore on June 21, declared that only through industrialisation in a big way could India go forward and solve her problems of poverty and unemployment. Mr. Nehru, said : “There is no other way out except industrialisation to go forward. It is a wrong idea that by industrial progress unemployment will grow. It is only through industrialisation that the ideal of full employment can be reached.” Mr. Nehru said that the Third Five-Year Plan would lay emphasis on industrialisation in a big way. At the same time, importance would be given to increasing food production also. The unemployment problem could not be solved without industrialisation. India would have to have big industries, small and medium industries and village industries. “I accept that all of them are necessary. Neither can the unemployment problem be solved, nor can we take India forward without industrialisation. If, however, any industry was badly run, it might result in temporary unemployment. But this could not be made an excuse to run down industrialisation. The very concept that employment opportunities will go down as a result of industrialisation was utterly wrong.”

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