I do believe that there can be no real progress either in this country or any other part of the world without it being founded and based on science, on the scientific application to many things in lide and, if I may say fur-ther, on the scientific temper of the mind of the people - thus said the late Pandit Jawaharwal Nehru, former prime Minister, while inaugurating the National Metallurgical Laboratory on 26th November 1950
