The SAIL Retired Officers’ Association (SROA)

Kolkata, 2014: The SAIL Retired Officers’ Association (SROA) takes pride in announcing their mega event  Seminar on “Steel Rolling Mills in India –Present & Future”  being held on Saturday, 22nd February 2014 at MeghnadSaha Auditorium, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Jadavpur, Kolkata.

A prestigious gathering of top-level experts from the industry and consulting domains will share the dais with the audience representing a cross section of steel and allied disciplines. The Seminar is expected to be a unique event of its kind where the participants will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge quotient by listening to the legends of the past and leaders of the present in steel domain.

Among the notable dignitaries who have accepted our invitation and agreed to grace the event with their personal presence include Sri Malay Mukherjee, ex-global head of L N Mittal group of companies. Prior to that he held the position of Executive Director (Works) of Bhilai Steel Plant of SAIL , Sri P.Roy- Director General, Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Shri Arabinda Das- Principal Director Commercial Audit; Sri Sushim Banerjee, Director General INSDAG;  Shri Asim Basu- Director(Fin)- MSTC; Representatives of RINL,SMS-MEER; M.N.Dastur & Co; State Bank of India; HSCL and other notable personalities and Institutions.

In an unique initiative of sharing the wisdom of those who are already recognised as specialists in Steel Making, we have invited some students of premiere engineering institutes like BESU, IIT-KGP, JU and NIT-Durgapur. The students will be accompanied with their professors too.

Key benefits of this conference will be to identify how innovative techniques in steel rolling is playing a vital role in the growth and efficiency of operations, share the best practices of steel rolling and bring the steel community together on a common platform.

SROA is a body of retirees who had to demit their offices at the prime of their cognitive existence - at the epitome of their functional efficiencies.  But not to be intimidated, the members of SROA have decided to buck the trend. They have pledged to convert the events of the past into opportunities for the future. Today, SROA is a storehouse of immense knowledge - a heady cocktail of expertise and experience soaked in greying wisdom. Yet, the association is bouncing with energy, ever eager to serve the industry and the nation.

Thinking big and beyond the conventional box, SROA is setting new standards of post retirement service by rededicating its collective expertise with fortitude for the cause of the steel industry. Formation of Knowledge Bank by leveraging the diverse and intensive portfolio of knowledge of its members, to be ploughed back for the service of the industry in an organised and mutually beneficial manner, is very much beeping in the radar of SROA.

This seminar is a small but firm step in that direction – an oar to set sail into the ocean of profound existence.