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J. R. D. nourished and nurtured his airline baby through to 1953, when the government of Jawaharlal Nehru nationalised Air India along with several other private Airlines and appointed JRD as its first Chairman. JRD continued as chairman for 25 years before being removed by Morarji Desai in 1978. He joined Tata Sons as an unpaid apprentice in 1925.
The Tata family is an Indian business family, based in Mumbai, India.The parent company is Tata Sons, which is the main holding company of the Tata Group.About 65% of the stock in these companies is owned by various Tata family charitable trusts, mainly the Ratan Tata Trust and the Dorab Tata Trust.
Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. is the holding company of the Tata Group, headquartered in Mumbai.It owns the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants, and derives its revenue from dividends from these companies and brand loyalty fees.
Tata Sons is the holding company of the Tata Group, and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. Tata Sons is the owner of the Tata name and the Tata trademarks, which are registered in India and several other countries. About 86% of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family.
Ratan Tata was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), during the British Raj, into a Parsi Zoroastrian family, on 28 December 1937. [11] He was the son of Naval Tata (who was born in Surat and later adopted into the Tata family), and Soonoo Tata (the niece of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata).
Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1856–1926) was an Indian businessman who played a pivotal role in the growth of the Tata Group in India. He was the first-cousin of Jamsetji Tata and one of the partners in "Tata Sons" founded by Jamsetji Tata. Ratanji was the father of renowned J. R. D. Tata. [citation needed]
The J. R. D. Tata Center for Ecotechnology, (1998) The Sir Dorabji Tata Center for Research in Tropical Diseases, (2000) The Tata Agricultural and Rural Training Center for the Blind. The International Institute for Population Sciences. Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1912
J. R. D. Tata was chairman of Tata Group 1938–1991. J. R. D. Tata was made chairman of the Tata Group in 1938. Under his chairmanship, the assets of the Tata Group grew from US$101 million to over US$5 billion. Starting with 14 enterprises, upon his departure half a century later in 1988, Tata Sons had grown to a conglomerate of 95 enterprises.