Indian Welding Journal

K. Hartley

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When we met last year for our Third Annual General Meeting, I mentioned that the economy had begun to pick up and that the real problem facing us was the political uncertainty then prevailing in many parts of the country.

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K. Hartley

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We are meeting here today on the occasion of the third Annual General Meeting of our Institute in an atmosphere which is both dark and bright. The dark side of the picture is represented by the political uncertainty which prevails in many parts of the country ; this has placed a big question mark over the entire economy which was otherwise beginning to show signs of revival.

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K. Hartley

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During the year that has passed since the last Annual General Meeting of our Institute it was hardly to be expected that, with the economy in general and the engineering industry in particular continuing to remain under the shadow of the recession, any spectacular advance would take place. Nevertheless I think we have achieved a great deal in consolidating and developing the Institute.

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K. Hartley

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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.

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