Scindia unveils stamp to mark Golden Jubilee Celebrations of SAIL

New Delhi, Feb. 3 (ANI): Minister of State for Communications and IT Jyotiraditya Scindia unveiled a commemorative postage stamp during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) on Tuesday.

"Our first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru laid the foundations of these Modern Temples of India, as he fondly called them, to create a modern and vibrant India based on modern science and technology," said Jyotiraditya Scindia.

On the occasion, he also said that India's huge human capital was once being touted to be a burden, but it has blossomed into our strength. With maximum population under 35 age group, India holds a huge competitive advantage in the area of technology.

"In fact poor infrastructure could prove to be our Achilles heel in our journey of development. Good power, roads, telecom connectivity are sine qua non for sustained GDP growth. In this connection the role of SAIL has been especially laudable," said Scindia.

"SAIL has understood it responsibility to the nation and committee itself through it strong vision "to be a respected world class corporation and the leader in Indian steel business in quality, productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction," the Minister said.

Scindia appreciated the custom of releasing the postage stamp on different occasions saying: "They (Postage stamps) are strong promotional tool and finest paper ambassadors of a country traveling far and wide, carrying the message they seek to disseminate. A study shows that six out of every ten educated person sometime or the other has been interested in philately and has been drawn to these beautiful pieces of little paper, called the postage stamp. The philatelic market is huge. It is more than 10 billion dollar industry in the world." (ANI)