AN INTERACTIVE MUSEUM

INDIA

FLAG ROAD INFOGRAPHIC

1947— 2014. Eight stops along the road that built the republic: policies, institutions, infrastructure and social reforms.

THE JOURNEY

EIGHT STOPS. ONE REPUBLIC.

1947 – 1964

Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime Minister

“The temples of modern India are her dams, her laboratories, her steel plants.”

Planning Commission (1950) & Five Year Plans
IIT & AIIMS — pillars of technical and medical excellence
INCOSPAR (1962) seeded India's space age
DRDO & BARC — sovereign defence and atomic research
Bhakra Nangal & DVC river valley projects
Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur steel plants
Non-Aligned Movement

1947 · Independence 1950 · Republic 1951 · IIT Kharagpur 1956 · SBI Nationalised 1962 · INCOSPAR

1964 – 1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Second Prime Minister

“Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.”

United the soldier and the farmer as nation-builders
Green Revolution foundations for food security
Decisive leadership in the 1965 war
Food Corporation of India — public food distribution

1964 · Sworn in as PM 1965 · FCI established 1966 · Tashkent Declaration

1966 – 1977 · 1980 – 1984

Indira Gandhi

Third Prime Minister

“There are two kinds of people — those who work and those who take credit.”

Bank Nationalisation (1969) — banking for the common citizen
Abolition of the Privy Purses
1971 victory and the liberation of Bangladesh
Operation Flood — the White Revolution
Pokhran-I (1974) and Aryabhata (1975)
Coal nationalisation & the 20 Point Programme

1969 · Bank Nationalisation 1971 · Bangladesh Liberation 1974 · Pokhran-I 1975 · Aryabhata 1982 · Asian Games

1984 – 1989

Rajiv Gandhi

Sixth Prime Minister

“India is an old country, but a young nation.”

Computer revolution — software policy opened the digital economy
Telecom revolution — C-DOT, MTNL and rural PCOs
National Education Policy 1986 & Navodaya Vidyalayas
IGNOU — open learning at national scale
Voting age lowered to 18 (61st Amendment)
Technology Missions: water, literacy, immunisation, dairy

1984 · Youngest PM at 40 1985 · Anti-Defection Law 1986 · C-DOT & NPE 1988 · Voting age → 18

1991 – 1996

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Ninth Prime Minister

“When we walk on the razor's edge, we cannot afford to falter.”

Economic liberalisation 1991 — unshackled the economy
FDI reforms opened doors to global capital
SEBI empowerment — modern capital markets
Private telecom and the New Telecom Policy
STPI and export-led IT growth

1991 · BoP reforms 1992 · SEBI Act 1993 · Panchayati Raj 1994 · Telecom Policy

2004 – 2014

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Thirteenth Prime Minister

“History will be kinder to me than the contemporary media.”

Right to Information (2005) — transparency as a citizen right
MGNREGA — world's largest employment guarantee
Right to Education (2009) & National Food Security Act
Aadhaar / UIDAI and Direct Benefit Transfer
Forest Rights Act and farm loan waiver
PMGSY rural roads, Delhi Metro, NRHM
Chandrayaan-1 and Mangalyaan approval

2005 · RTI · MGNREGA 2008 · Civil Nuclear Deal 2009 · RTE 2010 · Aadhaar 2013 · NFSA

1950 – 2013

Acts & Amendments

A Legislative Timeline

1950 · Constitution of India comes into force
1955 · Hindu Code Bills
1969 · Banking Companies Acquisition Act
1972 · Wildlife Protection Act
1986 · National Policy on Education
1991 · New industrial & economic reforms
1993 · 73rd & 74th Amendments — Panchayati Raj
2006 · Forest Rights Act · 2009 · Right to Education

11 landmark laws Six decades One republic

Across the Republic

A Nation-Wide Footprint

States & Projects

Delhi · Metro, AIIMS, Parliament
Punjab · Bhakra Nangal, Green Revolution
Maharashtra & Gujarat · industry and ports
Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh · space, IT corridors
West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh · steel and coal
Kerala & Tamil Nadu · literacy, health, manufacturing

12 states mapped Every region touched

FEATURED

ACHIEVEMENTS ACROSS SECTORS

1951+ Education

IIT System

A chain of technical institutes now shaping global engineering.

1956 Healthcare

AIIMS

Apex medical institute, template for the AIIMS network.

1963 Infrastructure

Bhakra Nangal

Multi-purpose river valley project on the Sutlej.

1965-70s Agriculture

Green Revolution

High-yield varieties, fertilisers and irrigation transformed food security.

1975 Science

Aryabhata

India's first satellite, built indigenously.

1991 Economy

Economic Liberalisation

Delicensing, FDI and market reforms reset India's growth trajectory.

2002+ Infrastructure

Delhi Metro

Modern urban mobility for the National Capital Region.

2005 Social Welfare

MGNREGA

Legal guarantee of rural employment.

2008 Technology

Chandrayaan-1

India's first lunar mission — discovered water on the Moon.

BY THE NUMBERS

SIX DECADES. TEN METRICS.

23+

IITs Established

22+

AIIMS Institutions

Major Steel Plants

4,000+

Major Dams

90,000+ km

National Highways

250+

Public Sector Undertakings

700+

Universities Recognised

100+

Space Missions

60,000+

Bank Branches Expansion

15+ Cr

MGNREGA Job Cards