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A letter written by JRD Tata in 1941, addressed to JJ Ghandy, the Managing Director of the Tata Iron and Steel
Company Limited about his plans for collecting, preserving and cataloguing important Records pertaining to the
history of the company. $
These Records were inspected, collected and CONSOLIDATION AND GROWTH
brought to the Archives which initially operated In its initial years, TCA’s main focus was on
from 23, Sir PM Road, Union Co-operative acquiring, appraising and cataloguing Records
Insurance Building, Fort, Bombay obtained from various sources. The next step of
(now Mumbai). Later, they were moved to Records Management was even more complex
TCA’s new premises on the campus of the Tata and required infinite patience.
Management Training Centre, Pune, so that the
participants coming to the Centre for training Since the concept of a business archive was new
would also get an opportunity to understand in India, the team at TCA had to face many
the history and heritage of the Tata group. Tata challenges: Learning the best ways of cataloguing,
Services was entrusted with the responsibility of preserving and conserving precious Records of
managing the Archives. the group, planning events and exhibitions and
evolving standardised processes. During this
JJ Bhabha, Director, Tata Sons, was intimately critical phase, TCA was fortunate to have the
involved in the design and construction of guidance of TR Doongaji, the then Managing
the building. The TCA building was formally Director of Tata Services. A man with a great
inaugurated by RN Tata, the Chairman of passion for Tata history and culture, he gave
Tata Sons, on February 13, 2001. TCA, India’s new direction and focus to the way the Archives
first business archives is a shining testimony to functioned. Mr Doongaji moved TCA from being
the foresight of JRD Tata and the persistence personality-driven to being processes-driven and
of RM Lala. made it a world-class business archives in India.
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