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Our Tribute to Subrata Mitra

We all,at STEEL TECH, were shockedand pained on hearing
the news of sudden demise of our beloved and esteemed
Editorial Board Member, Mr. Subrata Mitra on 20th October’21.
Mr Mitra was born on 24th February, 1950. He did his
Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata
in 1972. He started his career at Hindustan Motors and
after a brief period of 6 months, he joined WesmanEngg.
Co. Ltd. After working for another 6 months there, he joined
Alloy Steel Plant at Durgapur.Gaining a solid back ground
of plant operation and maintenance during his seven years
tenure in ASP, Durgapur, he joined M N Dastur & Co (P) Ltd.
as Assistant Engineer in 1981. He specialised in steelmaking
area and widely travelled in both domestic and international
steel plants on project work. In early eighties, he was involved
in theproject work of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant at Vizag
and helped setting up the integrated steel plant andlater its
expansion also- both in phase 1 & 2. He was also associated
with all the modernisation and expansion projects at Tata
Steel-Jamshedpur, Gopalpur and later at Kalinganagar Steel
plant. He spent one year in Egypt working at Suez Steel Plant
for its project implementation. Besides these, he worked in the
project area for many other steel plants in India and abroad
such asJindal Steel, ESSAR, Mittal Group and Kazakhstan.
Mr. Mitra was appointed as the Director in April 2005 and
rose to becomethe Joint Managing Director in August 2014. of iron and steel and who was always demonstrated keen
Dr.Tushar K. Roy, a long-time colleague of Subrata has this to interest in technical innovations and open to new ideas and
pen down, commemorating his candid remembrance during implemented many such innovative ideas in the projects he
their tenure and various projects while in Dastur as follows: led.
His passion for the steel industry continued even after his
“Subrata was a humble, humane and a well behaved
retirement from the company. He was associated with various
person and contributed a lot towards consulting engineering
metallurgical organisations as mentors.
practices of DASTUR. He was a well-read person on the
development of process technology of steel plants around He became Editorial board member of STEEL TECH
the world as well as on the history of the human kind of the andactively participated in various technical seminars
whole world.” and webinars and gave his expert opinions on iron and
steelmaking areas.
He retired from M N Dastur & Co (P) Ltd.on 31st March’20.
Seemingly unassuming, he was very much respected by one
Mr.Partha S. Ghose, presently Director - Projects of Kalyani
and all who came in contact with him because of his vast
Steel who knew him since mid-seventies fondly recollects his
experience and knowledge in engineering field and project
memory from the time Mr Mitra was associated with setting
implementation. He was not dogmatic, most humble in nature
up integrated steel plant at Dolvi, Raigadh in 1994 onwards
and down to earth in solving problems which came to him.
and later in 2014 when 1.2 MTPA Integrated steel plant was
He left behind his wife, son & daughter in law. It is difficult
planned to be set up by Kalyani Steels Ltd Plant was set up
to fill the void he left. We, from STEEL TECH, pay our deep
at Hospet where Mr Mitra led the consultancy team from M
respect for his departed soul and pray God to give his family
N Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. Mr.Ghose also fondly remembers Shri
members enough strength to bear this loss so sudden and
Mitra a great speaker with deep knowledge in the space
unexpected.
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