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A technician at work on telephone equipment, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Telephone Industry
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 1 rupee stamp shows a technician assembling telephone equipment, the work of Indian Telephone Industries, set up at Bangalore in 1948.
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