Monday, November 13, 2006

Shock and Disbelief

“10 people is all I use to handle the figure you quote...” Imagine the utter shock and disbelief that the B&E team experienced, when C. M. Verma nonchalantly trudged into the control room, matter-of-factly made that statement, and introduced himself quite bluntly, “I’m the Manager of the new Cold Rolling Mill!” Ten?!? Was that it? “Well, if you add sub-staff and cleaners, the total would come to 100...,” came the classic Verma riposte, with a deadpan professional glare. Hot versus Cold; 34,000 versus 10! That, dear critics, epitomizes the destruction of Tata Steel, as we had always known it. For the uninitiated, every steel slab (210 mm width and 11 metres length) from the blast furnace is sent first to the Hot Rolling Mill to be converted into a sheet (of 4 mm thickness and a massive 1.1 kilometres in length).

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Source:- IIPM-
Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006



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