Jamsetji Nusserwanji
Tata (3 March 1839 –
19 May 1904) was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group ,
India's biggest conglomerate company. He was born to a Parsi Zoroastrian family
in Navsari
then part of the princely state of
Baroda
.
He founded what would
later become the Tata Group of companies.
Jamsetji Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Steel Industry".
"When you have to give the lead in
action, in ideas — a lead which does not fit in with the very climate of
opinion — that is true courage, physical or mental or spiritual, call it
what you like, and it is this type of courage and vision that Jamsetji Tata
showed. It is right that we should honour his memory and remember him as one of
the big founders of modern India."— Jawaharlal Nehru.
The modern iron and steel industry in India owes its origin
to the grand vision and perseverance of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata. The Tata
Iron and Steel Company Limited (Tata Steel) was registered in Bombay on 26th
August 1907. The construction of the steel plant was then taken up in earnest
with the first stake being driven in February 1908. R.G. Wells, an American
with steel plant construction experience took over as the General Manager in
1909. Success came when the first blast furnace was blown-in on 2nd December
1911, and the first ingot rolled on 16th February 1912.
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