Welding in India:Problems and Perspectives

India's welding industry has been making rapid strides during the last three decades since it was first born and there can be no doubt that it can now be said to have come of age. There are, of course, some who might want to set the date of the inception of the welding industry in this country much further back, to the third century B.C. when the famous iron pillar of Ashoka was built, probably the earliest recorded welding job in history, but welding as an industry in the modern sense of the term came to India only in the thirties of the present century when engineers introduced the techniques already developed in more industrially advanced countries.