Word: durgapur
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...last Dutt won a contract to build the $28 million Durgapur steam power plant in West Bengal. He got the job by combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist. To the Indian government, it was an irresistible deal: because he designed the Bokaro steam plant, which became a model for all thermal plants in India, Harry Kuljian's name was already held in high regard in New Delhi...
Mixed Bag. After the Durgapur job, Kuljian Corp. of India was on its way. Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...
...produces only 1,800,000 tons of ingot steel a year, the government must use up huge chunks of its foreign reserves to import the steel the country needs. Hoping to quadruple production by 1961, India has brought in the services of four different nations to do it. At Durgapur in West Bengal, 400 British experts are supervising 29,000 Indians in building a mill that will begin operation next fall. Also in West Bengal, in Jamshedpur, the Pittsburgh of India, U.S. engineers of the Kaiser Engineers Division are just about finished with a new 1,000,000-ton addition...
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