Shavak Nanavati Technical Institute (SNTI), a technical training cradle of Tata Steel completed its glorious 99 years on Sunday.

Based at Bistupur in Jamshedpur, SNTI has over the past years made several contributions in expanding the frontiers of learning and development practices and this helped it in emerging as one of the premier corporate training institutions of the country.

SNTI mentored the formation of a new institution, J N Tata Vocational Training Institute (JNTVTI) which was set up in 2015 for providing world-class training to the youth of Jharkhand and neighboring Odisha and enable them to secure employment in the Tata Steel ecosystem.

Over 3,500 students of the institute have passed out and all of them have secured jobs amongst various companies associated with Tata Steel.

SNTI enabled access to its learning products across the world in July 2018. Since then over 25 large companies (both Indian and overseas) have benefited from the wide array of programs offered by it.

The technical institute also launched its e-portal Tata Steel Digie-shala in that year (2018) which enabled corporate and retail customers to access a world-class range of technical education programs that are unique in its content and presentation.

Prakash Singh, chief of Capability Development, Tata Steel who looks after the affairs of SNTI said, “It has been a long and glorious journey as we completed 99 years today. We will be celebrating the centenary next year.”

Singh informed that SNTI intends to begin 25 Schools of Excellence by the end of the current financial year.

“Nine schools have been opened so far and the rest will be operational by March next year,” he added.

The schools are specifically related to cutting edge areas of priority in the business activities of any manufacturing company – some examples of such schools are those pertaining to data analytics, visualization, lubrication, hydraulics, etc.

Notably, SNTI was established on November 1, 1921, as Jamshedpur Technical Institute (JTI) to meet the increasing demand for skilled manpower required by Tata Steel for running the steel plant in Jamshedpur.

In 1992, the Jamshedpur Technical Institute was renamed Shavak Nanavati Technical Institute in memory of Shavak Nanavati, the first graduate trainee who later went on to become the managing director of Tata Steel.