Late in August 1939, there took place a strike in a small iron foundry in Jamshedpur, the premiere steel city of colonial India.

On the 16th of March 1998, at the final hearing of the writ petition filed by the All India Democratic Women's Association and the faculty of the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the Drug Controller of India gave a written commitment to