PLANS FOR INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001900070001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Plans for Industrial Progresp
Apr 55
DATE OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, on or between which,
events or conditions described in report existed)
1955
of which in any manner to an unauthorized per-
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1. "Addressing a. joint session of the Parliament, the President of India
anticipated that greater emphasis would be laid on the establishment of
the capital goods industry in the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61). It
is reported that the government will soon finalize plans for the estab-
lishment of plants for the production of aircraft engines, heavy
electrical equipment and machinery required by the textile and cement
industries.
2. "The Indian Tube Company, sponsored by Tata Iron & Steel Company and
Stewarts and Ti d
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reports from firms of international repute."
the Pharmaceutical Enquiry Committee. a recommendations Of
"The government of India has agreed in principle to the setting up of a
synthetic oil plant in the country and has decided to obt i
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s erecting in Jamshedpur a mill for the manufacture
of G I pipes and W I pipes in the common sizes required in India. The
plant has a capacity of 80 thousand tons per annum and will commence pro-
duction at the end of 1955. An extension of the scheme will enable the
plant also to produce tubes. When the entire plant goes into production
in 1957, India will become self-sufficient in pipes and tubes. At pre-
sent, India depends entirely on imports of these products.
"The government of India has set up a Development Council for the scheduled
industries engaged in the manufacture and production of pharmaceuticals and
drugs. The setting up of this Council was one of th
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