Promising & Performing Companies : Sales (Turnover) – FY 09

IOC............250, 000 Crores
BHEL..........28,000
LARSEN ....40,000
RIL ...........150,000

TATA POWER .....18,000 Crores
TATA STEEL ......150,000
Rel Infra ...............13,000
ONGC .................110,000
NTPC ....................50,000

BHARTI ..............40,000 Crores
R COM ................20,000
SAIL .....................50,000
STERLITE ...........25,000
SUZLON .............25,000

GujNRE ................1,500 Crores
KS OILS ................3,000
SESA GOA ............5,000
UNITEC ................3,000

POWER GRID ......7,000 Crores
JP Associate ..........5,000
Cairn India ............1,500
Rolta ......................1,500
Glenmark .............1,000

TATA group : India's pride

A factsheet on Tata group, India’s largest industrial house founded by Jamsetji Tata in the mid-19th century, which Monday announced the commercial launch of their small car Nano:Past titans: Jamsetji Tata, Sir Dorab Tata, Sir Ratan Tata, J.R.D. Tata, Naval Tata

Chief Executive: Ratan Naval Tata, 71
Headquarters: The landmark Bombay House in downtown Mumbai
Promoter companies: Tata Sons and Tata Industries
Shareholding: Majority of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family
Decision makers: The Group Corporate Centre comprises Ratan Naval Tata, N.A. Soonawala, J.J. Irani, R.K. Krishna Kumar, R. Gopalakrishnan, Ishaat Hussain, Kishor Chaukar, Arunkumar Gandhi and Alan Rosling

Number of companies: 98, of which 27 are listed
Areas of interest: Seven business segments covering information systems and communications, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals
Group turnover: $70 billion (Rs. 350,000 Crores)
Market capitalisation: $60 billion
Shareholder base of listed companies: Around 3.2 million investors
Countries of operation: Over 80, spread over six continents

Employees: 350,000
Some global companies acquired: Tetley of Britain in 2004, Daewoo Commercial Vehicles of South Korea in 2004, Eight O’clock Coffee of US in 2006, Anglo-Dutch Corus in 2007, Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008
Some popular brands: Tetley (beverages), Tanishq (jewellery), Titan (watches), Voltas (cooling appliances), Rallis (agro-chemicals), Westside (garments), Tata Indicom (telecom), Taj Air (in-flight catering), Nelco (electronics), Taj hotel

Some brand ambassadors: Tennis ace Sania Mirza, cricketers Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan, Formula One racer Narain Karthikeyan, and actors Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah

Some major companies: Indian Hotels, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Tea, Tata Coffee, Tata Motors, Titan, Rallis India, Voltas, Tata Chemicals, Tata Steel, CMC, Tata Communications, Tata Elxsi, Tata Power, Tata Investment, Tata Metaliks, Tayo Rolls, Tinplate, Trent, Tata Teleservices and Nelco.

BALANCE should be the buzzword.

Last morning, when I picked up the newspaper, at least two of the news items put me in dilemma. One seemed to be related directly to my immediate personal life, the other to the global future. No, they were not about choosing between terrorists and imperialists, liberal Islam or puritan Islam, communism and capitalism, Osama and Obama. Nor were they about the media’s favourite and ever-burning topic of Indo-pak conflicts. Both were on the front page. Both were more views than news. But neither had any conclusive end to shape up my opinion about the life and the world.

One of the news stated: "93% of Mumbai’s population were deprived of sufficient sleep resulting in hypertension, diabetes, depression and personality disorders". The other news item accused the Developed nations of trying to derail the climate talks, currently going on in Copenhagen. Mumbai people and the developed nations, both are educated, rich on their own rights and have got informed choices. But, why are they failing to stop the derailments of their futures, I thought helplessly. I am trying to overcome my helplessness through rational discussions and honest expression of my views on these topics in the following paragraph. Well…. I would not be moralist this time.

Though the former is about private life and the later, of public and global importance, we need to discuss both in parallel because private and public lives are no more isolated in this globalised and blogalised world. The Mumbai problem is certainly due to the chase for wealth at the cost of health and the Copenhagen issue is about confusion between the two extremes of Ecology and Economy. Actually, choosing out of two extremes has become our habit in private as well public lives: Extremes of family or career, unemployed or over-worked, inhuman or superman, total abstinence or indulgence, Nuclear bomb or Nuclear-free, fast-life or suicide, illiteracy or over-schooling, SUVs or bullock-carts, green technology or no technology, America or Terrorist, etc. The problem with us is that we tend to choose one of the two extremes and not "in between" (moderate way). Hence, all the problems of depression, diseases, conflicts and chaos. The solution lies in striking a BALANCE between the extremes. Be a father of a family, head of any institution or a world leader, he/she should take some hard decisions to lead a BALANCED life for achieving the ultimate human objectives of health, happiness, harmony, peace and justice.