Jamshedpur Founder’s Day: Noel N Tata inaugurates ‘Agni’ structure inside Jubilee Park

Jamshedpur, March 2: Tata Steel Vice Chairman Noel N Tata inaugurated ‘Agni’ structure inside Jubilee Park on the eve of 184th Founder’s Day on Thursday, March 2.

T V Narendran, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Steel along with Chanakya Choudhary, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel, Rituraj Sinha, MD, Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Limited and senior officials of the company were present.

The structure has been articulated as a flame rising from the mother earth and reaching for the skies. Fire (Agni) symbolizes many things in the Indian culture: purity, spirituality, knowledge, and enlightenment, all leading to the path of truth. The structure is divided into two parts, the sub ground structure (foundation) and the superstructure (the sculpture). The structure has been made with Tata Structura YST 355 steel tubes.

To celebrate the versatility of steel and its applications, Tata Steel conceptualised a global design competition ‘Notions of India’ to bring together architects from around the world to showcase their creativity by using steel structural hollow sections. The competition also reinforces the mission of Tata Structura to enable contemporary architectural marvels and innovative solutions of tomorrow. ‘Agni’ was one of the winning entries from this competition’s second edition organised in 2021, which saw over 5,200 registration from participants across 13 countries.

Tata Steel paid homage to its Founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata on the eve of his 184^th Birth Anniversary today at Jubilee Park. Various projects were also inaugurated at Jamshedpur there by reassuring group’s commitment for the city and locations where it operates.  

This year’s theme of Founder’s Day is “Greennovation-Make Tomorrow Green”