Tata Group’s Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata has urged Twitterati to finish the campaign searching for to confer him India’s highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna. In response to the Twitter campaign #BharatRatnaForRatanTata, launched by a motivational speaker and YouTuber Dr Vivek Bindra on Friday, Ratan Tata on Saturday morning tweeted that “while I appreciate the sentiments expressed by a section of the social media in terms of an award, I would humbly like to request that such campaigns be discontinued.” The noted philanthropist added that rather, he considers himself fortunate to be an Indian and to attempt and contribute to India’s development and prosperity.
While I appreciate the sentiments expressed by a section of the social media in terms of an award, I would humbly like to request that such campaigns be discontinued.
Instead, I take into consideration myself fortunate to be an Indian and to attempt and contribute to India’s development and prosperity pic.twitter.com/CzEimjJPp5
— Ratan N. Tata (@RNTata2000) February 6, 2021
Born December 28, 1937, Ratan Tata was educated at Cornell University, New York in 1962 prior to he returned to India and worked at many Tata Group corporations. He was named director in charge of one of them — the National Radio and Electronics Co in 1971. He climbed the corporate ladder to grow to be the chairman of Tata Industries and later in 1991 became the Chairman of Tata Group. Under his leadership, the small business-focused on international expansion. Tata Group acquired UK’s Tetley Tea for $431.2 million back in 2000 and acquired the truck-manufacturing operations of South Korea’s Daewoo Motors for $102 million in 2004. In 2008, Tata Motors acquired British automobile brands Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company in the $2.3 billion deal that marked the greatest-ever buyout by an Indian automaker.
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Ratan Tata had received the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan in 2000 and 2008 respectively. Among other notable recognitions conferred on Rata Tata incorporated the UK’s Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 and comparable awards by the government of Italy, Japan, and France. “Ratan Tata believes today`s generation of entrepreneurs can take India to next level. We confer the country`s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna for @RNTata2000,” Bindra had tweeted.
The income of Tata Group’s 30 providers in FY20 was $106 billion. The 30 providers spread across 10 clusters operates in more than one hundred nations and collectively employ more than 7.5 lakh men and women. Tata Sons is the principal investment holding firm and promoter of Tata providers with 66 per cent of the equity share capital of Tata Sons held by philanthropic trusts. According to the group, there are 29 publicly-listed Tata enterprises with a combined market place worth of $123 billion as of March 31, 2020.