Father of Indian Industry

Born: 3 Mar. 1839

Died: 19 May 1904

He was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group. His vision inspired the steel power industries in India and set the foundation for technical education.

1868 Founded a trading company with as 21000 as capital.

1877 Started the Empress Mills in Nagpur

1903 Set up the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.

LEGACY

• Tata's iron and steel plant was set up Sakchi village in Jharkhand.

• The Village grew into a town & the railway station was named Tatanagar.

• Now, it is a bustling metropolis known as Jamshedpur.

Founder of Tata Steel in 1907 & Tata Power in 1911

Born: 27 Aug. 1859

Died: 03 June 1932

• Worked as a Journalist for two years at Bombay gazette.

• On 27 May 1909, he established the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, & donated to the institute in 1912.

• Was the President of the Indian Olympic Association & financed the team Indian Paris Olympics in 1924.

• He was set up the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust using all his life's earnings in 1932, the value of his donation was estimated at Rs. 10 million at the time.

AWARD

He was Knighted Bachelor in 1910 for his contributions to industry in British India.

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata

Born: 29 July 1904

Died: 29 November 1993

French-born Indian aviator, entrepreneur, chairman of Tata Group and the shareholder of Tata Sons.

Founder of several industries under the Tata Group, including Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Titan Industries, Tata Salt, Voltas and Air India.

He was the second child of businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife, Suzanne “Sooni”.

In 1929, JRD renounced his French citizenship and became an Indian citizen, and started working at Tata. In 1930 JRD married Thelma Vicaji.

Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata decided to move his family to India and sent J.R.D to England for higher studies in October 1923. He was enrolled in a Grammar school, and was interested in studying Engineering at Cambridge. As a citizen of France J.R.D had to enlist in the army for at least 1 year, After a 12-month period of conscription in the French Army he wanted to proceed to Cambridge for further education, but his father decided to bring him back to India and he joined the Tata Company.

On 10 February 1929, Tata obtained the first pilot licence issued in India. He later came to be known as the father of Indian civil aviation. He founded India’s first commercial airline, Tata Airlines in 1932, which became Air India in 1946.

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust from its inception in 1932 for over half a century. Under his guidance, this Trust established Asia’s first cancer hospital, the Tata Memorial Centre for Cancer, Research and Treatment, in Bombay in 1941.

founded the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, 1936), the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, 1945), and the National Center for Performing Arts.

In 1945, he founded Tata Motors. In 1948, JRD Tata launched Air India International as India’s first international airline.

JRD Tata died in Geneva, Switzerland on 29 November 1993 at the age of 89 of a kidney infection, Upon his death, the Indian Parliament was adjourned in his memory – an honor not usually given to persons who are not members of parliament. He was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

AWARDS:

In 1983, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor,

India’s highest civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan in 1955

Bharat Ratna in 1992.

Faqir Chand Kohli, the founder and first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, Passed away November 26 2020, He was one of the most respected faces in the Indian IT industry.

Born in Peshawar, British India in March 19,1924.

BA and B.SC from the Government College for Men in Lahore under Punjab University. Later he went to Queen's University in Canada and completed B.Sc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering in 1948. He also did his MS in Mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950.

Kohli returned to India in 1951 and joined Tata Electric Companies and rose to become its Director in 1970. During this tenure he was responsible for the use of digital computers for power system design and control.

In September 1969, Kohli became the general manager of TCS. In 1994, he became deputy chairman of the company and the rest is history. In 1991 he actively worked to bring IBM to India as part of Tata-IBM.

Legend who not only laid the very foundations on which India’s prowess as a global software powerhouse has been built, but also led innovations in far-ranging areas including adult literacy, water purification, software engineering, software automation, complex-systems, and cybernetics.

AWARD

In 2002, Kohli was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honor,

India’s second richest man and well-known philanthropist.

Born July 24, 1945,

Azim Premji, a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

His father was also a noted businessman and was known as a Rice King of Burma. His father was invited by the founder of Pakistan to Muhammad Ali Jinnah to move to Pakistan, he turned down the request and decided to remain in India.

In 1945, Mohamed Premji founded Western India Products Ltd., based at Amalner, a small town in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. The company manufactured cooking oil and laundry soap. In 1966, 21-year-old Premji returned to his hometown after leaving his studies at Stanford on the news of his father’s death. He decided to take charge of Wipro Limited. Later, The company named Western Indian Vegetables Products Ltd. was diversified to bakery fats, hair cair soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products.

The importance of the emerging IT field and changed the name of IBM to Wipro and entered the high technology sector. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company under the management of Premji made a strategic shift from lifestyle products to software.

AWARDS:

• In 2005, Awarded Padma Bhushan

• In 2006, Awarded Padma Vibhushan

Nagavara Ramarrao Narayana Murthy is an Indian Billionaire businessman & Founder of Infosys.

Born: 20 Aug. 1946

• Started Infosys in 1981 with a capital of Rs. 10000 provide by wife Sudha Murthy.

• 2nd Largest Indian IT services company by revenue, Infosys has 1.045 clients across 50 countries.

• Described as "Father of Indian IT Sector" by Time magazine.

• Listed among the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time by Fortune magazine.

AWARD

Padma Shri (2000)

Padma Vibhushan (2008)