100th Annual Report 2006-2007 - Tata Steel

1907-2007
JRD Tata with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
during a visit to Jamshedpur.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata,
known as JRD to the world, was Chairman of Tata Steel
for almost half a century. He pioneered civil aviation
in the subcontinent in 1932.
JRD was conferred with the Bharat Ratna - India’s highest
civilian award for national service in 1992 and the
Padma Vibhushan - India’s second highest
civilian honour in 1955.
The Tatas were one of the first to own a
fully mechanised iron ore mine in India
at Noamundi.
1983 saw the beginning of
the Modernisation of the steel
works that was implemented
in four phases.
The principle of Joint Consultation -
that addresses various aspects of
employee-management relationship -
was introduced for the first time in India
as early as 1920.
The Electric process of steel-making
was used for producing high grade
iron and steel castings in 1938.
Tata Steel carried out a
2 million tonne expansion
programme (1955-1958)
under a contract with Kaiser
Engineers, USA.