Tata Steel has invited President Ramnath Kovind to release stamp on Jamshedpur. The year 2019 marks 100 years of naming of the steel city Jamshedpur.
CEO and managing director of Tata Steel T.V. Narendran extended his warm wishes to the people after a formal cake cutting ceremony on Tuesday to usher in 2019 at the lawns of Centre for Excellence on Tuesday. “Year 2019 is a significant year as on January 2 steel city will complete 100 years of getting its name as Jamshedpur. Moreover, the Tata Workers' Union will also celebrate its centenary this year,” said Narendran.
Steel city was renamed Jamshedpur from Sakchi in the year 1919. It got the name from its late founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
He informed to mark occasion Tata Steel has written a letter to the President of India Ramnath Kovind inviting the latter in Jamshedpur for releasing a postage stamp to mark the occasion. Narendran said that the corporate major was committed to develop Jamshedpur as one of the best industrial towns.
Describing steel city has a 'City of institutions' he said that they always make efforts to strike a balance between corporates and institutions.
He also cited examples of community participation which makes the steel city an attractive, vibrant and a better place to live in. They will continue to work on development projects.
On the sidelines of the cake cutting function Narendran said that they are also working on smart city and Greater Jamshedpur project.
Referring to a query Narendran said that the production of hot metal at the Jamshedpur plant has reached 11 MTPA from the earlier 10 MTPA and that they are exploring the pros and cons of further expansion.
Exactly a 100 years ago (January 2, 1919), Lord Chelmsford , who served as Governor General and Viceroy of India (1916 - 1921) said “ I can hardly imagine what we should have done during these four years (of the First World war) if the Tata Company had not been able to gift us steel rails which have been provided for us , not only for Mesopotamia but for Egypt, Palestine and East Africa, and I have come to express my thanks…It is hard to imagine that 10 years ago, this place was scrub and jungle ; and here, we have now, this place set up with all its foundries and its workshops and its population of 40,000 to 50,000 people.
This great enterprise has been due to the prescience, imagination of the late Jamsetji Tata. This place will see a change in its name and will no longer be known as Sakchi, but will be identified with the name of its founder, bearing down through the ages the name of the late Jamsetji Tata. Hereafter, this place will be known by the name of Jamshedpur.”