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January 22, 2017 at 11:50 pm

 Steel can only reflect the shining spirit  that it sees. Given below are some of the shining spirits who have touched lives at the Tata Steel Company. They inspired the company and its people to seek excellence in business and in all that the company wanted to be known for, without these National Leaders and many others, names of a few have been mentioned below the company would not have been what it is today.

The company is now on threshold of an important change and a new beginning now. The company prides in reverence at the associations built as it looks back and at the same time marching ahead in the twenty first century. Given below are the names of some of the important national leaders and their association with the Tatas and their company.

J.N.Tata was convinced that the ‘Nation that has the steel has the gold’, Tata’s founder laid the bedrock for India’s economic emancipation. Tata Steel soon became the largest steel plant in the British Empire and remained so in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Swami Vivekananda was Jamsetji Tata’s companion aboard the ship ‘Empress of India’ on their voyage to America in 1893. Mr.Tata was deeply influenced by Swamiji’s ideal of self-reliance. Later, Swamiji helped the founder of the Tata group J.N.Tata to set up the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru which is now a premier institution in the world and has also been ranked as one of the best among the different such institutions worldwide.

Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg publicly acknowledged Tata’s support towards the Satyagrahis in South Africa in 1909 and remained a close friend of  Ratan Tata. In 1925 he visited Jamshedpur at the invitation of C.F.Andrews and successfully took up the issue of recognition of the Tata Labour Association with the management in 1934 during his second visit.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru continued the patronage of his father, Pandit Motilal Nehru towards the Indian Steel Industry. He first visited Jamshedpur in 1925 with Mahatma Gandhi and remained a friend of the Tatas and on becoming India’s first Prime Minister, paid a visit to Jamshedpur in 1958 during the Golden Jubilee Year of Tata Steel.

Subhash Chandra Bose took charge of the Jamshedpur Labour Association in 1928 and provided leadership to the steel companies labour till 1937. He took up successfully with the management of the company the issue of the need to infuse qualified Indian engineers into covenanted positions.

J.R.D.Tata is India’s pioneer aviator, became Chairman of Tata Steel at the age of 34 and steered the company’s fortunes through difficult turbulent times during war years in the course of Indian History. As Chairman of Tata Steel, he remained a doyen of the Indian Industry for well over five decades and was instrumental in pioneering and molding Indian Aviation, Industrial Development, Scientific Research and family planning.

Without the name of Tata Group the Indian industrial sector would be incomplete. The company has a long way to go and a lot of challenges to face to stay ahead of the competition and be the leader showing other companies the right way in corporate governance and fulfilling Social and Corporate responsibility. It will be a leading light in the industrial sector for many more years to come.

March 2, 2017 at 2:08 pm

Some more interesting details about Tata Steel are mentioned below for your information to know how this company has come a long way in different aspects during its period of growth. It  as many good  companies do values its workforce as they form the building blocks of any organisation the strong the bricks used are the better the results for the company.

 

It values the loyalty of a employee which has gone for a six as many companies have a philosophy of hiring based on demand and supply situation. Whereas in the case of this company it is a all weather relationship which reinforces employee confidence. It is a equal opportunity provider, gender neutral, merit oriented pay is totally based of performance of the employee and the results which the company collectively shows.

 

There is also a positive discrimination in favor of local, marginalized sections and women. Thus it plays it role of delivering  corporate social responsibility well. All these and many other factors like goodwill, brand name, diversification, increase in production in the long run work in favor of the company.