Development in Steel Research

It's an honour and pleasure for me to participate in the inaugural function of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of the CSIR. Over the last 50 years Tata Steel has had a wonderful association with the National Metallurgical Laboratory. As far as my own personal association is concerned, I recall a visit to Jamshedpur in 1965 even before I graduated from UT Madras. And it was my first visit to Jamshedpur along with some of my classmates and along with me was our own director of ITT Dr. Vibhut-ibhushan Sen Gupta, who said he would take me to a friend of his.So I landed up in Dr. A. B. Chatterjee's house and little did I know that I would become a very close friend of Dr. A. B. Chatterjee's son who is here - Dr. Amit Cha-tterjee. So, that was my first visit to Jamshedpur and first meeting with anyone associated with National Meta-llurgical Laboratory and I very vividly recall spending that evening very pleasantly with Dr. A. B. Chatterjee and Mrs.Chatterjee and I don't think At-nit was there that evening and we had a very pleasant evening. It was the house just off the straight mile road, one of those red-dish coloured houses on the Pipe Line road