Tata Steel Ltd installs Chair Professor at the Indian School of Mine

Kolkata, Sep 15 (UNI) Tata Steel Limited and Indian school of Mines (ISM) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian School of Mines for appointing a "chair professor".

According to this MoU, "Tata Steel Chair Professor" would be in the Mineral processing with Fuel&Mineral Engineering Department in ISM. The appointed professor would be part of the faculty and conduct research and development work on coal and mineral beneficiation.

Tata Steel Limited has granted Rs one crore for the "Tata Steel Chair Professor." The MoU was signed by A.D.Baijal, Vice-President Human Resources Tata Steel and Director of I S M Prof T.Kumar.

The agreement would give access to the Chair professor to give recommendations and suggestions to Tata Steel on daily basis.

Alliance between the steel company and the educational institute, both of national and international repute, would not only help miners in Tata Steel to enhance their knowledge base but would also enable students to gain information about operations in coal mining, Tata Steel sources here said.

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