From Bokaro Steel to MECON - the change which changed the life
Were there no Emergency in India my life would not have been so exciting ! How ? Let us roll back a little to 1977 .. Janata Party - a conglomeration of anti Congress and anti Emergency political parties overthrows Indira Gandhi Govt by thumping Majority after dark days of Emergency. Late Mr Biju Patnaik, Steel Minister in new dispensation goes ahead to set aside earlier decision to have Russian Mills and gives the order for new CRM-II complex to MECON with Wean United Inc of USA. Thus MECON - a leading Steel Consultancy Company - got the order for CRM-II in 1977 and MECON had to play dual role as consultant as well as supplier of equipment for SAIL- Bokao Steel. In view of this new job some 17 electrical engineers were selected from Bokaro Steel Ltd for parallel transfer to MECON - both companies were subsidiary to SAIL at that time. I along with many of my friends Mr SB Mukherjee, Mr PC Sadhu, Mr Prakash Chatterjee, Mr Udai Singh, Mr Prabhakar, Mr NK Tam