WHAT A START! A sea of revellers at Jubilee Park in Jamshedpur on New Year Monday; (below) Tata Steel managing director TV Narendran cuts a cake to welcome 2018 along with former MD of Tinplate Company of India RN Sharma and Tata Steel vice-president (corporate services) Sunil Bhaskaran on the lawns of Centre for Excellence in Bistupur; devotees offer prayers at Beldih Kalibari for an auspicious start to the calendar; and special child Saksham Singh with his family enjoys his outing at Birsa zoo in Ormanjhi, Ranchi.

At the formal cake-cutting ceremony, Narendran injected some optimism by promising to ramp up the production capacity of the Jamshedpur steel plant from 10 to 11 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) in 2018. He added that Kalinganagar plant in Odisha, commissioned with 3MTPA, had received the Board's go-ahead for a projected 8MTPA in the future. He also thanked the Centre's steel policy and the state government's efforts in creating an industrial ecosystem. Pictures by Bhola Prasad and Prashant Mitra