With spirits undeterred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steel City is being decked up to pay tributes to the founder Jamsteji Nusserwanji Tata on his birth anniversary on March 3. Several roads, roundabouts and other institutions of Tata Steel are being lit up for the occasion.
Keeping in mind the prevailing situation of pandemic, Tata Steel has decided to cancel public functions and celebrate the day with a limited number of people at its different locations.
According to officials, with Covid-19 guidelines in place, the company has decided to give mass gathering a skip. Most of the events planned inside the steel works will be limited to paying floral tribute to the founder.
The pioneering industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, had written to his son about his dream of a big city in the erstwhile village of Sakchi, which was finally renamed as Jamshedpur in 1919 by a British statesman.
Founder’s Day was first instituted by Tata Steel on March 3, 1932. It was D N Madan, Chief Accountant, Tata Iron and Steel Company, who first conceived the idea of observing and celebrating an annual gathering to commemorate the birth anniversary of J.N. Tata. Founder’s day provided him with an opportunity of expressing his regard for the memory of the genius to whose faith and adjustment, energy and perseverance, the works, the towns and the environs of Jamshedpur bear enduring witness.
“Like every year work is in full progress for Founder's Day. Work is carried out on a war footing to complete widening work of important roads. Several artilleries are getting a facelift too,” said an official.