Tata Steel will pay homage to its founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata with a message of green energy in sync with the theme ‘Life@TataSteel — Build the tomorrow you deserve’.

Tata Steel, along with its utility arm Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Limited (TSUISL), have installed solar trees in Jamshedpur’s Jubilee Park.

“Solar Trees have not been installed in public places anywhere here in Jharkhand or Bihar or for that matter even in Odisha. This would be the only occasion wherein four solar trees have been installed in the over-six-decade-old park spread on 500 acres of land,” an official said.

“Each of the solar trees would have an installed capacity of 4.5 kilowatts peak. The clean and green power generated from the solar trees would be used to light up across the park. The solar trees would be made functional prior to the founder’s day illumination at the Jubilee Park on March 2,” the official said.

Solar tree is a structure designed like a tree with branches made of steel to hold the photovoltaic panels. The solar power tree was designed by Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) in Durgapur, Bengal, in 2016 and the world's largest solar tree was developed by the same institution in November last year.

“We will be celebrating the 183rd birth anniversary of our founder J.N. Tata on the theme “Life@TataSteel – Build the tomorrow you deserve”. Every year, Tata Steel along with other Tata group companies celebrates the birth anniversary of its founder in line with the vision of an industrial future with community welfare at its core,” said Tata Steel vice-president of corporate services Chanakya Chaudhary.

“Life@TataSteel will reflect life where profession meets passion, ambition meets compassion and work meets leisure. It is aimed at showcasing how the company continues to build an organisation where people work harmoniously to build a better tomorrow for self and the world,” Chaudhary said.

The key features of this year’s celebration would be grand illumination of over 40 landmark locations in Jamshedpur, the country’s first planned industrial township founded by Tata.

“The landmark locations include heritage buildings, places of worship and roundabouts,” Chaudhary said.

The founder’s day is celebrated in Jamshedpur wherein Tata group companies pay floral tributes to J.N. Tata. The event will be live streamed for employees.

There will be sporting activities lined up for employees at JRD Tata Sports Complex.

Chaudhary said invitations have been sent to chairman emeritus of Tata Group Ratan Tata and chairman N. Chandrasekaran for the events on March 2 and March 3. “However we are yet to get confirmation,” added Chaudhary.

Sources said because of age factor, the arrival of Ratan Tata, who had been attending every founder’s day event till the pandemic, is unlikely.