India, Feb. 4 -- On April 13, 1958, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Okhla Industrial Area in what was then a Delhi suburb. It was dubbed India's biggest industrial estate . Nehru described industrialisation as "a revolution to achieve a welfare State as distinguished from the revolution we waged to obtain freedom". He also underlined that India would continue to be a land of paradoxes as a country which was determined to take full advantage of automation and atomic energy for peaceful reconstruction and industrialisation while allowing the "takli" (spindle) the "charkha" (spinning wheel), and the bullock cart to exist side by side.

He also called for "complete reorientation of employer-employee relations" which made sure ...