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Lesser known facts about business tycoon JRD Tata

IndiaTV Business Desk [ Updated 30 Apr 2015, 18:28:18 ]
Lesser known facts about business tycoon JRD Tata

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India has been a home to various noted industrialist who have played a vital role in the growth of Indian economy. One such name is “Tata”. The name itself sounds like a firm pillar in the development of business and economy in India.
Tata group was founded by Jamshedji Tata in the year 1868. This renowned business group has been served by six Chairmen so far with Cyrus Mistry as its sixth and present Chairman.
Amongst these six chairmen, JRD Tata was one of the most enterprising Indian entrepreneurs, who led the Tata Group to new heights of success.
The famous business tycoon, JRD Tata was the Chairman of Tata & Sons for 50 years.
Here we bring you some lesser known facts of this pioneer aviator and an amazing businessman JRD Tata:
1. Born on July 29, 1904 in Paris, JRD Tata’s full name was Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. He was the second child of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a first cousin of a pioneer industrialist in India, Jamsetji Tata.
2. JRD Tata attended the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay. Thereafter, he completed his education in London, Japan and France, before joining the army for one year as a citizen of France.

3. After completing one year in the army in France, JRD came back to India after which he joined Tata & Sons as an unpaid trainee in 1925. Just after twelve years, in 1938, JRD was elected Chairman of Tata & Sons, which made him the head of India’s largest industrial group.
4. JRD had a keen interest in flying and on February 10, 1929, he became the first Indian to pass the pilot's examination and obtain the first pilot license issued in India. Later, JRD became the father of civil aviation in India and built Tata Airlines in 1932, which ultimately became Air India which is now a renowned Airlines in India.
5. When JRD took over Tata Group as its chairman in 1938, he started on with 14 enterprises under his leadership. After 50 years of his leadership in 1988, Tata & Sons was a corporation of 95 enterprises including the ones they either started or in which they had controlling interest.
6. For nearly 50 years, JRD Tata was the trustee of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust which was set up in 1932. The trust established Asia's first cancer hospital, the Tata Memorial Center for Cancer, Research and Treatment, Bombay, 1941 under the guidance of JRD Tata.
7. While in 1945, JRD founded Tata Motors; in 1948, he launched Air India International as India's first international airline. JRD Tata was appointed as Chairman of Air India and a director on the Board of Indian Airlines in 1953 by the Government of India. He served this position for 25 years. He was also conferred with the title of Honorary Air Commodore of India for his greatest achievements in the field of aviation.
8. JRD Tata was always concerned for his employees and therefore he instigated a program of closer 'employee association with management' in 1956, in order to give workers a stronger voice in the affairs of the company. JRD Tata believed in employee welfare and advocated the principles of an eight-hour working day, free medical aid, workers' provident scheme, and workmen's accident compensation schemes for employees, which were later adopted as statutory requirements in India.
9. JRD Tata received a number of awards during his life time. On the eve of silver jubilee of Air India in 1957, JRD received the Padma Vibhushan. He also received the Guggenheim Medal for aviation in 1988. Because of his selfless humanitarian activities, JRD Tata was awarded the Bharat Ratna- India's highest civilian honor, in 1992. It was one of the rarest instances in which this award was granted during a person's lifetime. JRD Tata was also bestowed with the United Nations Population Award in the same year.
10. JRD Tata died on November 29, 1993 in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 89. The Indian Parliament was adjourned in his memory after the news of his death. This honor is not usually given to persons who are not Members of the Parliament.

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J. R. D. Tata

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Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
JRD TATA of bombay house.jpg
Born29 July 1904
Paris, France
Died29 November 1993 (aged 89)
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalityIndian
EthnicityParsi
OccupationEx-Chairman of Tata Group
Known forFounder of TCS
Founder of Tata Motors
Founder of Titan Industries
Founder of Tata Tea
Founder of Voltas
Founder of Air India
ReligionZoroastrianism
Spouse(s)Thelma Vicaji Tata
Parent(s)R.D. and Suzanne Tata nee Brière
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French-born Indian aviator and business tycoon. He was the Chairman of Tata Sons. He became India's first licensed pilot in 1929. In 1983, he was awarded the French Legion of Honour and, in 1992, India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.[1]

Early life[edit]

J. R. D. Tata was born on 29 July 1904 in Paris, France, the second child of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife, Suzanne "Sooni" Brière.[2] His father was a first cousin of Jamsetji Tata, a pioneer industrialist in India. He had one elder sister Sylla, a younger sister Rodabeh and two younger brothers Darab and Jimmy Tata. As his mother was French, he spent much of his childhood in France and as a result, French was his first language. He attended the Janson De Sailly School in Paris.[3] One of the teachers at that school used to call him L'Egyptian for some strange reason.[4] Tata also served for one year in a Spahis regiment during the Second World War.[5][6] After he left the service the whole regiment perished on an expedition in Morocco.[5][7]
He attended the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay. Tata was educated in London, Japan, France and India.[8] When his father joined the Tata company he moved the whole family to London. During this time, J.R.D's mother died at an early age of 43 while his father was in India and his family was in France. After his mother's death, 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. Just as the Grammar course was ending and he was hoping to enter Cambridge, a law was passed in France to draft into the army, for two years, all French boys at the age of 20. As a citizen of France J.R.D had to enlist in the army for at least 1 year. In between the Grammar school and his time in the army, he spent a brief spell at home in Bombay. After joining the French Army he was posted into the regiment called Spahis (The Sepoys). Soon the Colonel of the regiment found that there was a member of his Squadron who could not only read and write French and English,[9] but could type as well; so he assigned him as a secretary in his office. Tata was once again transferred to the more luxurious office of a colonel. 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. In 1929, JRD renounced his French citizenship and became an Indian citizen, and started working at Tata. In 1930 JRD married Thelma Vicaji, the daughter of Jack 'Prince' Vicaji, a colourful lawyer whom he hired to defend him on a charge of driving his Bugatti too fast along Bombay's main promenade, Marine Drive. Previously he had been engaged to Dinbai Mehta, the future mother of The Economist editor Shapur Kharegat.

Career[edit]

J. R. D. Tata was inspired early by pioneer Louis Blériot, and took to flying. On 10 February 1929, Tata obtained the first pilot licence issued in India.[10] 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, now India's national airline.He and Nevill Vintcent worked together in building Tata Airlines. They were also friends.
He joined Tata & Sons as an unpaid apprentice in 1925. In 1938, at the age of 34, JRD was elected Chairman of Tata & Sons making him the head of the largest industrial group in India. He took over as Chairman of Tata Sons from his second cousin Nowroji Saklatwala. For decades, he directed the huge Tata Group of companies, with major interests in steel, engineering, power, chemicals and hospitality. He was famous for succeeding in business while maintaining high ethical standards – refusing to bribe politicians or use the black market.
Under his chairmanship, the assets of the Tata Group grew from US$100 million to over US$5 billion. He started with 14 enterprises under his leadership and half a century later on 26 July 1988, when he left, Tata & Sons was a conglomerate of 95 enterprises which they either started or in which they had controlling interest.
He was the trustee of the 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 Center for Cancer, Research and Treatment, in Bombay in 1941. He also 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. In 1953, the Indian Government appointed JRD Tata as Chairman of Air India and a director on the Board of Indian Airlines – a position he retained for 25 years. For his crowning achievements in aviation, he was bestowed with the title of Honorary Air Commodore of India.
JRD Tata cared greatly for his workers. In 1956, he initiated a program of closer 'employee association with management' to give workers a stronger voice in the affairs of the company. He firmly believed in employee welfare and espoused the principles of an eight-hour working day, free medical aid, workers' provident scheme, and workmen's accident compensation schemes,which were later, adopted as statutory requirements in India.
Tata was also controversially supportive of the declaration of emergency powers by Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1975. He is quoted to have told a reporter of the New York Times, "things had gone too far. You can’t imagine what we’ve been through here—strikes, boycotts, demonstrations. Why, there were days I couldn’t walk out of my office into the street. The parliamentary system is not suited to our needs." [11]
He was also a founding member of the first Governing Body of NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi,India's first independent economic policy institute established in 1956. In 1968, he founded Tata Consultancy Services as Tata Computer Centre. In 1979, Tata Steel instituted a new practice: a worker being deemed to be "at work" from the moment he leaves home for work till he returns home from work. This made the company financially liable to the worker for any mishap on the way to and from work. In 1987, he founded Titan Industries. Jamshedpur was also selected as a UN Global Compact City because of the quality of life, conditions of sanitation, roads and welfare that were offered by Tata Steel.[12]

Awards and honours[edit]

JRD Tata received a number of awards. He was conferred the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force in 1948, was promoted to the Air Commodore rank (equivalent to Brigadier in army), and was further promoted on 1 April 1974 to the Air Vice Marshal rank. Several international awards for aviation were given to him – The Tony Jannus Award in March 1979, the Gold Air Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in 1985, the Edward Warner Award of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, Canada in 1986 and the Daniel Guggenheim Award in 1988.[13] He received the Padma Vibhushan in 1955 . The French Legion of Honour was bestowed on him in 1983. In 1992, because of his selfless humanitarian endeavours, JRD Tata was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. In the same year, JRD Tata was also bestowed with the United Nations Population Award for his crusading endeavours towards initiating and successfully implementing the family planning movement in India,[14] much before it became an official government policy. In his memory Government of Maharashtra termed its first double decker bridge as Bharatratne JRD Tata Over-bridge at Kasarwadi Phata, Pune.

Death[edit]

JRD Tata died in Geneva, Switzerland on 29 November 1993 at the age of 89 of a kidney infection.[15] On his death, the Indian Parliament was adjourned in his memory – an honour not usually given to persons who are not members of parliament. He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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