Vision
As prime minister of independent India, Nehru himself was convinced of the utmost need for Parliamentary democracy as a system best suited to Indian conditions because of its complex and composite culture. He was deeply involved in carrying out India’s 5-year plans for growth and development. His policies led to a sizable growth in agricultural and industrial production. He pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with nations of every political tendency.
He believed in non-alignment as a guiding principle of India's foreign policy so that India is assured of having the freedom of choice in making decisions responsive to its national interests without being subject to external influences. He supported the UN resolution on Korea in 1950, opposed the British and French move in 1956 at the Suez Canal, and told an aggressive China in 1959 that he would defend India’s borders with armed force.
Nehru was convinced that Science and Technology were crucial to the solution of India’s problems. In 1938, way before independence, he said that it was science alone that could solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of sanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition of vast resources running to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people.
He believed in non-alignment as a guiding principle of India's foreign policy so that India is assured of having the freedom of choice in making decisions responsive to its national interests without being subject to external influences. He supported the UN resolution on Korea in 1950, opposed the British and French move in 1956 at the Suez Canal, and told an aggressive China in 1959 that he would defend India’s borders with armed force.
Nehru was convinced that Science and Technology were crucial to the solution of India’s problems. In 1938, way before independence, he said that it was science alone that could solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of sanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition of vast resources running to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people.