Tata Steel, India's largest integrated private steel manufacturer today announced the appointment of Mr. Partha Sengupta as Vice President - Corporate Services of the Company, with effect from October 1st 2007.

The following departments will be reporting to Mr. Partha Sengupta in his new role - General Manager (Medical Services), Chief (Corporate Sustainability Services), Chief (Tata Football Academy and Sports), Chief (Security & Administration), Chief (Corporate Communications), Chief Resident Executives at Delhi and Bhubaneswar, Resident Executive at Ranchi, Chief Adventure Programme, Legal Department

Mr. Sengupta has done his Bachelors in Metallurgy from IT BHU and he joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1980. In 1995 he was appointed as Commercial Manager in the Managing Director's Office in Calcutta. Thereafter, in 2003 he became the Executive-In-Charge of Tata Steel's Wire Division in Mumbai. In April 2005, he took over as the Principal Executive Officer in the Managing Director's Office.

Additionally in 2006 he was given the responsibility of leading the Jharkhand Steel Project.

About Tata Steel
Established in 1907 as Asia's first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel today is the world sixth largest steel producer with geographic footprints in India, South East Asia, UK and Europe. With the recent acquisition of Corus Limited, the combined enterprise has a pro forma crude steel capacity of 25.6 million tonnes with over 84,000 employees across the four continents.

*The Company is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer on a rights basis of its equity shares and cumulative convertible preference shares and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with SEBI and the stock exchanges. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the respective websites of the BRLMs at www.jmfinancial.in, www.citibank.co.in and www.dspml.com”