PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Nov 1: Tata Steel achieved yet another milestone today as Shavak Nanavati Technical Institute ( SNTI ), the leading technical institute of the country completed 100 years.
Many decades before India woke up to the reality of the need for technical skill development for the youth, Tata Steel had set up SNTI, formerly known as Jamshedpur Technical Institute (JTI) 100 years ago, in 1921 for a steady supply of technically qualified personnel.
The technical institute was established to train Indians in various trades so that they could man the Tata Steel plant, which later began to meet the needs for technically qualified personnel across the Tata Group.
The institute has since then gone on to supply technically qualified manpower to the private sector and public sector steel plants in the country.
It has trained around 4,000 people in various trades over the last century.
This was kept in line with the view of the founder of the Tata Group J N Tata.
In 1992, JTI was renamed Shavak Nanavati Technical Institute in memory of Shavak Nanavati, the first graduate trainee to join the company in 1932.
He later went on to become the managing director of Tata Steel, serving during the period 1970-72.
In recent times, SNTI has made seminal contributions in expanding the frontiers of learning and development practices and has consolidated its reputation as one of the premier corporate training institutions in the world.
Digital technologies have been at the forefront of SNTI’s strategies and the institution has made significant interventions to upgrade the digital capabilities of its own operations as well as those of its customers.
