Dr Panjabrao Shamrao Desmukh and Diderich Hegermann Lund (Norsk Teknisk Museum)

In 1952, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs engaged Diderich Hegermann Lund (to the right in the picture) as the first project leader of the INP. Lund was an engineer and entrepreneur and known to be a pacifist and a great admirer of Gandhi. During WWII, he was employed by the Norwegian government in exile in London for planning the post-war recovery of Norwegian industry. After the war, Lund became the head of the reconstruction programme in the war-damaged region of Finnmark and north of Troms before he headed for India.