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On the Stamp
Jamsetji Tata in a roundel beside the chimneys and furnaces of the Tata steel works at Jamshedpur, reflected in water, with the words “Golden Jubilee of the Indian Steel Industry 1908-1958” in Hindi, on a 15 naye paise stamp.
Fifty Years of Indian Steel
India Post issued this stamp on 1 March 1958 for the golden jubilee of the Indian steel industry. Jamsetji Tata dreamed of an Indian steel works, and after his death his sons founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company in 1907; work began the next year at Sakchi, in the forests of Bihar, on the town that became Jamshedpur, and the first steel was made in 1912. By 1958 the Second Five Year Plan was building three more steel works, at Bhilai, Rourkela and Durgapur. More than 35 million of these stamps were printed.
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