~His Excellency Syed Sibtey Razi, the Governor of Jharkhand congratulates Tata Steel for the inauguration of Power House #6 inside Tata Steel Works~

His Excellency Syed Sibtey Razi, the Governor of Jharkhand inaugurated Power House #6 (PH #6) inside Tata Steel Works today. Mr. B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel and Mr. H M Nerurkar, Executive Director (India and South East Asia), Tata Steel welcomed the Governor of Jharkhand on his visit to Tata Steel. To mark this milestone achieved by Tata Steel, a function was organised at Steelennium Hall inside Tata Steel Works after the inauguration of PH #6 at the site.

The inauguration of the Power House is an achievement by Tata Steel's Jamshedpur Works and a step towards its expansion plan to become 6.8 MT. This Power House #6 has been developed by Industrial Energy Limited (a joint Venture company of Tata Power and Tata Steel). IEL has set up this 120MW Blast Furnace Gas (generated from Tata Steel Blast Furnace) based thermal power plant inside Tata Steel Works, Jamshedpur. This is the first unit by Industrial Energy Limited and the project took 2 years and 4 months for its completion.

The Power House will be utilising the additional available Blast Furnace (BF) Gas, Coke Oven (CO) Gas and LD Gas for power generation, thereby helping in the reduction of Green House Gases Emission. The electricity generated from this power plant will be known as Green Power. Apart from various technical features, this plant will be environment friendly as it will control the plant effluent discharge with the help of Effluent Treatment Plant.

While addressing the gathering, His Excellency Syed Sibtey Razi, the Governor of Jharkhand praised the visionary and Founder of Tata Steel, J N Tata for the inception of Tata Steel even before India was independent. "J N Tata's vision of setting up Tata Steel has been a beacon of light for India in its journey towards industrialisation and self confidence. The Company in the last 100 years has not only given an opportunity to Jharkhand to industrialise but also to India to progress. Tata Steel's global presence symbolizes India's presence in the World steel industry. Today, Tata Steel is higher in stature as it the leader in the steel industry in India and the Government will always support this company in its expansion projects to the best of its ability." He added, "I am happy that Tata Steel has fulfilled all its promises and contributed to the development of Jharkhand. I would like to congratulate this 100 year old company for its relentless service to the progress of the state and for the inauguration of Power House #6"

Mr Muthuraman welcomed the Governor of Jharkhand and spoke about the progress of Tata Steel and its projects, "Tata Steel is not merely an industrial enterprise or a business enterprise, it is an integral part of the society that has contributed to progress of Jharkhand and human civilisation. Even though Tata Steel is a global company today, we firmly believe Jamshedpur and Jharkhand is our home and our expansion plans will be concentrated in this state. In the last 10 years, Tata Steel has invested Rs. 25,000 crores in Jamshedpur and the mines and collieries in the state. Jamshedpur has in it the capacity to create a world class steel plant and we solicit the support of the state government in fulfilling our expansion projects as we have been fulfilling our promises for the last 100 years".

The welcome address was by Mr. H M Nerurkar, Executive Director (India and South East Asia), Tata Steel where he thanked the Government of Jharkhand for their support to Tata Steel in its steady progress towards its expansion in Jamshedpur. The vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. Om Narayan, Vice President (Shared Services), Tata Steel.

The Governor was accompanied by Mr Sudhir Kumar Tripathi, Principal Secretary to the Governor of Jharkhand, Mr S S Meena, Commissioner, Kolhan Division and Mr Avinash Kumar, Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Governor of Jharkhand. Also present to grace the function was Mr. R Padmanabhan, Executive Director, Tata Power. The function at Steelennium Hall was attended by Shri. Raghunath Pandey, President, Tata Workers Union, Shri. Rakeshwar Pandey, President, Tata Mazdoor Union, other committee members and senior officials from Tata Steel.

Power House #6 will cater to the additional power requirement of Tata Steel's expansion plan.