09 September 2014

India 1958 Exhibition 30.12.1958

The year 1958 witnessed probably the best organised Exhibition so far held in India at a national level. Organised in  record time, the Exhibition comprising nearly 300 pavilions and stalls divided in 22 centres, truly pictured the evolution of a new India since Independence under the impact of successive Five year plans. India was in the middle of the Second Five Year Plan and substantial progress has been made in most of the projects forming the core of the plan. The Exhibition provided splendid opportunities to demonstrate to the people of India the various development plans and stages of progress achieved and to impress upon the people that the Plan was for the people and not the people for the Plan. To that extent India 1958 was a great success.

The 15nP stamp on the FDC depicts the impressive gate/entrance to the exhibition.

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