Tata Steel employees remember Ratan Tata as visionary, guardian
The Hindu
The demise of industrialist Ratan Tata deeply impacts Jamshedpur, with residents mourning the loss of a visionary leader.
The demise of industrialist Ratan Tata has shattered the people of Jamshedpur, named after Tata Group’s founding father Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
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Jamshedpur, popularly known as ‘Tatanagar’, located deep in India’s tribal heartland in Jharkhand, developed due to the visions of Mr. Tata who took Jamshedpur not only out of India but placed it on the global map.
For the people of Jamshedpur, Tata does not mean a company but it has given them identity. The employees in the Tata company remembered him with profound grief.
A resident of Jamshedpur, Ram Mohan Singh, who retired in September after working in Tata Steel for 42 years, closely remembered Mr. Tata who first visited Jamshedpur in 1963 to look into how Tata Steel works.
“Every year he used to visit Jamshedpur on March 3 to mark the birth anniversary of J.N Tata. Whenever a new plant was being set up he used to visit Jamshedpur. He was not only the guardian of the company but also the guardian for the employees,” Mr. Singh, who retired from Learning and Development, told The Hindu over phone. He said the death of the visionary was a big setback for the Tata group and in near future nobody could take his place.