Jamshedpur, May 9: The skyline of the steel city is all set to get a new look in the next five years. For, Tata Steel has decided to set up multi-storeyed residential flats for its employees.
With an aim to improve the standard of living of its employees, the management of Tata Steel has decided to phase out old single and double-room residential quarters in the next five years.
The managing director of the company, B. Muthuraman, made the announcement while inaugurating about 70 residential flats (in five blocks) in Kadma for the employees ? both supervisors and workers.
The project, Green Enclave, is a part of 250 flats. It is expected to be complete by this October.
According to Muthuraman, the company is trying its best to improve the standard of living of its employees and the housing project is a part of it.
?This is for the first time that our company is providing houses to both supervisors and workers. We are dedicated to improve the overall standard of living of our employees,? he said.
The managing director said the flats are probably the biggest one provided by any company to its supervisors and workers.
Officials of corporate communications, Tata Steel, told The Telegraph that today?s inauguration of 70 flats behind Rankini Mandir in Kadma is part of 500 such plots to be built by Tata Steel within five years.
Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (Jusco) is executing the project of building complexes for which Tata Steel had hired Karan Grover as architect.
The company has already started demolishing the vacant single and two-room quarters in Garamnala and other areas of the city.
During the inauguration ceremony, Muthuraman said the living standard of its employees is improving and he expressed hope that each household would have its own Internet connection within a few years.