TATA
Mr Ratan N Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, from 1991 till his retirement on December 28, 2012. During his tenure, the group’s revenues grew manifold, totalling over $100 billion in 2011-12. After retirement, Mr Tata has been conferred the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals.
Mr Tata was the chairman of major Tata companies, including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Chemicals, Indian Hotels and Tata Teleservices. He is also associated with various organisations in India and overseas. Mr Tata is on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation and JP Morgan Chase.
He is the Chairman of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Allied Trusts, and the Sir Dora ji Tata Trust and the Allied Trusts. He is the Chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He also serves on the board of trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California.
Mr Tata joined the Tata group in 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed Director- in-Charge of the National Radio and Electronics Company in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the group’s other holding company, where he was responsible for transforming it into a group strategy think tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses.
Mr Tata received his bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University in 1962. He worked briefly with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles before returning to India in late 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 1975.
The Government of India honoured Mr Tata with its second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2008. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities in India and overseas.
BOOKS
Education is critical to the alleviation of poverty; it improves health and productivity, drives gender parity and promotes opportunities for upward mobility. It is the foundation of the nation’s socio-economic development and can be considered the most important investment for progress.From an individual perspective, education sparks a pursuit of knowledge and love for learning, fosters confidence and self-esteem, and helps individuals to maximise their potential and engage in a meaningful manner in the civic, economic, cultural and social aspects of society.Education has been a key focus area of the Tata Trusts since inception – the JN Tata Endowment was established in 1892 to provide scholarships to young Indians who wanted to go abroad for higher studies.
Currently, through the education portfolio, the Tata Trusts strive to provide ‘Authentic learning for all’ in a comprehensive and holistic manner. The goal is to provide high-quality, authentic, real-world, active learning experiences that mold productive and well-rounded 21st century citizens while also working to ensure equitable access to these learning opportunities.
Teachers are an integral part of the education ecosystem. As part of their education portfolio, the Tata Trusts work at multiple levels to ensure that teachers are supported with exposure to best practices. Teacher professional development interventions are a vital element in the Trusts’ vision of delivering ‘authentic learning for all’.One of the most powerful and sustainable means of self- development for teachers is to be a part of guided communities of practice. The Trusts are building such communities that convene and learn from each other to tackle core issues.
The Experiential Learning for Teachers Project is an initiative of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in collaboration with the Tata Trusts. The online course was launched on the DIKSHA platform in 2020. Its key objective is to sensitise teachers to allow primacy to the experiences of the learner and to the process of learning over the content.
Braj Art Gallery Synthetic Wood Ratan Tata Framed Portrait - Dark Brown (13.5X19.5 Inches)
The Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata Endowment for The Higher Education Of Indians (Established in 1892)-More than 5,400 Indian students have been awarded the JN Tata Endowment’s loan scholarship since 1892, when it was established by Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee, the promoter of the Tata group. The Endowment supports only overseas studies – Masters, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral fellowships, in any educational stream. Based only on merit, it seeks to reward “the best and most gifted so as to make them of the greatest service to the country”. The loan, a maximum of Rs10 lakhs, is repayable within seven years and is collected in five equal instalments from the end of the third year.Many of the JN Tata scholars are not only carrying out path-breaking research and teaching at reputed institutions but are also manning and leading national and international banking, commercial and financial institutions, multinational corporations, providing quality health care and legal services and entering sunrise industries such as IT, Biotechnology, Computing, including areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and so on.
Books you may like
A Complete Biography of Ratan Tata
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
0 Comments