Five Year Plan – Sindri Factory (1955)

The Sindri factory, on a ₹5 definitive.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue January 26, 1955

Denomination Rs. 5

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 14 x 14½

Watermark Star of India Multiple [SL]

Colours Brown

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 254 Stamp Number IN 270 Yvert et Tellier IN 65 Stanley Gibbons IN 370

Themes Agriculture, Buildings, Factories

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The buildings and chimneys of the Sindri fertilizer factory, on a ₹5 stamp.

The Sindri Fertilizer Factory

On Republic Day, 26 January 1955, India issued a new series of eighteen definitive stamps, from 3 pies to 10 rupees, on the theme of the First Five Year Plan: the farms, dams, crafts, industries and landscapes of the new republic. They were printed by photogravure at the Security Printing Press, Nashik, on paper watermarked with stars. The 5 rupee stamp shows the fertilizer factory at Sindri, in Bihar, opened in 1951, one of the first great public-sector industries of independent India.