Tata steel obserges 160th birth anniversary of Bose

Tata Steel today observed the 160th birth anniversary of Pramatha Nath Bose (P N Bose) to commemorate his invaluable contribution towards the setting up of Tata Steel and steel industry at large at India.
The event brought back memories of the man whose very own research findings for iron ore deposits led Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, to set up an industrial base in Sakchi, now a part of the steel city of Jamshedpur.
The occasion was marked with garlanding the statue of Bose by Anand Sen, President, TQM & Steel Business, Tata Steel, R Ravi Prasad, President, Tata Workers' Union, among others, a Tata Steel press release today said.

Recalling Bose's contributions, Sen said that it was due to his invaluable research that Tata Steel is located in one of the most favorable locations in terms of raw material availability. Global dynamics will change and so will our operational strategies but the fact that Tata Steel has sustained itself for more than a century and for some more time to come is all because of the greatness of Bose.
Born on May 12, 1855 in a remote village of Gaipur, in 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, the most outstanding achievement of his life was the discovery of iron ore deposits in the hills of Gorumahisani in the state of Mayurbhanj.

Following the discovery, Late Bose wrote a letter to J N Tata on February 24, 1904 which led to the establishment of Tata Iron and Steel Company at Sakchi.
Bose has several firsts to his credit. He was the first Indian graduate in science from a British University; first to discover petroleum in Assam; first to set up a soap factory in India and also the first to introduce micro sections as an aid to petrological work.
He was also the first Indian to hold a graded position in the Geological Survey of India where he served with distinction. As a man of science, he had constantly taken up the cause of technical education in the country.