Big policy: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru signing the First Five-Year Plan document in 1950 ▲
Economic milestone: Rickshaw pullers congratulating Prime Minister IndiraGandhi on the nationalisation of 14 major banks in 1969 ▲
Operation flood: President VV Giri, flanked by Sir Richard Trehane (right), President, International Dairy Federation, and V Kurien, Chairman, Indian Dairy Development Board, in 1972 ▲
Equity trading: Stock brokers at the BSE ▲
Green revolution: MS Swaminathan, Director, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, holding a sheaf of corn ▲
Dark phase: President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency in 1975 ▲
The Maruti story: Former PM Indira Gandhi inspecting a Maruti model before itslaunch ▲
Architects of Liberalisation: Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao with then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, who opened up India’s economy to the world ▲
Trailblazer ISRO set a record in February 2017, deploying 104 satellites froma single rocket ▲
Cash-ban: Long queues outside ATMs and bank branches were thenorm as the government introduced demonetisation in Nov 2016 ▲
Tax innovation: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi launch the Goods and Services Tax at midnight, June 30 ▲
Dream Budget: Then Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s Budget of 1997 helped broaden the nation’s tax base ▲
Telecom revolution: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with telecom‘czar’ Sam Pitroda at a telematics exhibition ▲