Prime Minister Nehru deplores the trend toward "giganticism" in modern industrial society, but when it comes to his own economy, he flatly says: "We must think in terms of large schemes." This week two of his large schemes made news as the first blast furnaces of two vast new steel mills were formally commissioned.
One mill, in Rourkela in the state of Orissa, is being built with the help of German capital and engineers. The other is the Soviet-designed Bhilai steel mill, rising, a month behind schedule, on what was once a wilderness on the sun-scorched plain of central India....
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