Goodwill Hunting

  • 26/05/2008

  • Business World (Kolkata)

CROSSING OVER: A little girl in Rajasthan goes to a state school supported by Mahindra & Mahindra Every year, the 100-year old Tata Steel trains batches of 10-15 unskilled women to operate cranes, earth movers and blast furnaces at its Jamshedpur plant. Eschewing cleaning, sweeping and odd jobs, the women, called tejaswinis by the company, move on to rub shoulders with men as mechanics, welders and operators of heavy machinery