Tata Steel CENTENARY

Name of FDC:Tata Steel Centaenary
Isuue Date:22nd APR'2008
Detail:

• Established in 1907, Tata Steel is the world's 6th largest steel company with an existing annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tonnes.


• Asia's first integrated steel plant and India's largest integrated private sector steel company is now the world's second most geographically diversified steel producer, with operations in 24 countries and commercial presence in over 50 countries.


• Tata Steel completed 100 glorious years of existence on August 26, 2007 following the ideals and philosophy laid down by its Founder, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.


• The first private sector steel plant which started with a production capacity of 1,00,000 tonnes has transformed into a global giant . Tata Steel plans to grow and globalise through organic and inorganic routes. Its 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) Jamshedpur Works plans to double its capacity by 2010. The Company also has three greenfield steel projects in the states of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh and proposed steel making facilities in Vietnam and Bangladesh. Through investments in Corus, Millennium Steel (renamed Tata Steel Thailand) and NatSteel Asia, Singapore, the Tata Steel has created a manufacturing and marketing network in Europe, South East Asia and the Pacific-rim countries. Corus, which manufactured 18.3 MT of steel in 2006, has operations in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway and Belgium. Tata Steel (Thailand) is the largest producer of long steel products in Thailand, with a manufacturing capacity of 1.7 MT. NatSteel Asia produces about 2 MT of steel products annually across its regional operations in seven countries. Tata Steel, through its joint venture with Tata BlueScope Steel Limited, has also entered the steel building and construction applications market. The iron ore mines and collieries in India give the Company a distinct advantage in raw material sourcing. Tata Steel is also striving towards raw materials security through joint ventures in Thailand, Australia, Mozambique, Ivory Coast (West Africa) and Oman. Exploration of opportunities in titanium dioxide business in Tamil Nadu, high carbon ferro-chrome plant in South Africa and setting up of a deep-sea port in coastal Orissa are integral to the Growth and Globalisation objective of Tata Steel.


• Tata Steel's vision is to be the global steel industry benchmark for Value Creation and Corporate Citizenship. Tata Steel is one of the few steel companies in the world that is Economic Value Added (EVA) positive.


• It was ranked the "World's Best Steel Maker", for the third time by World Steel Dynamics in its annual listing in February, 2006.


• Tata Steel has been conferred the Prime Minister of India's Trophy for the Best Integrated Steel Plant five times.


• Kamleshwar Singh designed the Stamp and the First Day Cover.


• Alka Sharma designed the pictorial first day postmark. Brochure containing write-up and technical data was issued on the occasion.


• The First Day Cover and the Brochure are priced at Rs 2 each. Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed the stamps by wet offset in the quantity 1.3 million.

Remark:FDC posted on the issue date by speedpost.

INDIA FDC- Jasmine Flower

FDC Name:Jasmine

Date Of Issue: 27th April'2008
Details:This is the India's 3rd scented stamps set.This 2v stamps has value INR 15.00 & INR 5.00.A miniature sheet(s/s) also issued for INR 20.00 with the FDC.

India post has already issued 2nos scented stamps in the year 2006 & 2007.

• Sandalwood (INR 15.00)
• Rose ( 4V Set of INR 5.00 & INR 15.00)
  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine

Remark:In lot of difficulties I have received the FDC & stamps wasting whole day for this philatelic activity.As usual India post has not supplied the brochure of the stamps.

India FDC- Civil Service

FDC name: Civil Service

Issue Date:21st APRIL'2008

Details:

• Dr Manmohan Singh, the Prime minister of India released a postage stamp in honor of the Civil Service on April 21, 2008 at New Delhi on the occasion of the 3rd Civil Service Day.
• The Prime Minister while inaugurating the third Civil Service Day said that the Civil Services need a renewed commitment in placing them on the side of the disadvantaged in society. He said that considerable process reform can be undertaken by the civil service itself to address several perception issues. Further elucidating the subject, the Prime Minister said, the challenge now is, for effective public management of the resources besides creating open, transparent and accountable systems of delivery. The inauguration was attended among others by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Prithviraj Chavan and Minister for Communications & Information Technology A Raja.
• The Prime Minister gave away the 'PM Award for Excellence in Public Administration' for the year 2006--07 to the 13 awardees in three categories -- individual, group and organization. Later, he released a book on Innovations in Administration titled "Splendour in the Grass" compiled by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. The book covers various innovations successfully tried out by different Ministries / Departments, state / UT administrations, national and international organisations. A Raja informed that the Department of Posts was the first Department to be awarded `Sevottam' -- a model for benchmarking excellence in public service delivery.
• An exhibition on `Innovations in Administration' and a Display of books written by civil servants was also organized on the occasion. A film, `Making a Difference', a collage of innovations undertaken across the country was also screened. Following the inaugural, the technical session commenced with a talk by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, on `Decision Making in Government: Role of Audit'. This was followed by three parallel panel discussions on - `Recruitment and Training in Civil Service'; `Performance Appraisal of Civil Servants' and `Readiness of Civil Service to meet current challenges'. Secretaries of Government of India, Chief Secretaries and Heads of the all India services and the Central Services were among those who participated in the day-long deliberations.
• Shankha Samanta designed the Stamp and the First Day Cover.
• Alka Sharma designed the pictorial first day postmark. Brochure containing write-up and technical data was issued on the occasion.
• The First Day Cover and the Brochure are priced at Rs 2 each.
• India Security Press, Nasik printed the stamps by photogravure in the quantity 0.8 million.

Remark: India post became worst day by day as the philatelic materials are not available in the Philatelic bureau in time (On the issue date),Nobody there to listen in the India post as several complain has been given.So the end result is that philatelist loose interest in posting the FDC on the issue date.GOD HELP US.

Taiwan FDC- Disney's Cartoon Animation with M/s-Finding Nemo( 3rd APR'2008)

FDC Name:Cartoon Animation -Finding Nemo.

Issue Date:3rd April 2008.

Details:Disney's "Finding Nemo" is an animated movies shown in about 120 countries around the world & won Oscar for the best animated feature. The film is about a single clown fish father and his son Nemo.One day Nemo is captured & tahn put in the a fish tank.To find his beloved son,the anxious father embarks on a difficulty and dangerous journey.One his way he confronts all kinds of crises,but he is eventually reunited with his son thanks to the help of ocean friends.The stamp features

• Nemo- a clown fish & star of film
• Tad - a long nose butterfly fish
• Sheldon- a little seahorse
• Squirt- a little green sea turtle
• Peach - a starfish
• Bubbles-a yellow tang
• Dory- a blue tang
• Pearl- a flapjack octopus

Remark: Excellent Two FDC worth collecting,posted on the issue date by my Taiwan friends by registered post & reach here on 16th APRIL'2008 in India.Thanks to Indiapost this time no tamper was done on FDC.

China FDC-The Games of the XXIX Olympiad - Torch Relay

FDC Name:The Games of the XXIX Olympiad - Torch Relay
Date of Issue:24th MARCH 2008
Details:

• Validated by IOC, the Olympic Flame will be lit in Olympia, Greece according to tradition on March 24, 2008. From March 24-29, the Torch Relay will travel across Greece, ending at the Panathinaiko Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. After the handover ceremony in the stadium, the Olympic Flame will arrive in Beijing on March 31, 2008. In Beijing, a ceremony will be held for the arrival of the flame into China and Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay will commence.


• The cities along the route are:Beijing; Almaty; Istanbul; St.Petersburg; London; Paris; San Francisco; Buenos Aires; Dar Es Salaam; Muscat; Islamabad; New Delhi; Bangkok; Kuala Lumpur; Jakarta; Canberra; Nagano; Seoul; Pyongyang; Ho Chi Minh City; Hong Kong; Macao;


• More details about the Issue.More......


• 2008 China Olympic Games Torch Relay Stamps & Sheetlets I


• 2008 China Olympic Games Torch Relay Minisheet


• 2008 China Olympic Games Torch Relay Sheetlet II

Remark:Excellent FDC by China post.Posted on the issue date by registered post and received by me today i.e 10th APR'2008.

India FDC Asrar-Ul-Haq'Majaaz'.

FDC name:Asrar-Ul-Haq 'Majaaz'.
FDC Issue Date:28th MARCH'2008.
Details:

• Majaz Lucknawi was born in Rudauli, Bara Banki, Uttar Pradesh on October 19, 1909. His real name was Asrar ul Haq. His early education was at Ameenabaad High School, Lucknow. Later he joined Saint John's College, Agra where he was introduced to the world of Urdu poetry and met noted Urdu poets Muin Ehsan 'Jazbi' and Fani Badayuni. He began writing poetry and accepted Fani Badayuni as his Ustaad, who suggested him the pen name 'Majaaz'.


• He graduated from Aligarh Muslim University, in 1936. Same year he moved to Delhi as editor of Awaaz, a radio magazine for All India Radio. Then he fell in unrequited love for a married woman and after a year returned to Lucknow brokenhearted. He started drinking heavily and had his first nervous breakdown. Prolonged treatment restored his sanity and he again took charge of his life. For a short time he worked in Bombay Information and after returning back took admission to study law at Lucknow University. Along with Ali Sardar Jafri, started a magazine Naya Daur and finally joined Harding Library, Delhi as Assistant Librarian. His folks fixed his marriage but the bride side backed out reportedly on his meager monthly earning of Rs 150, and this hurt him real hard. He again lost his balance and doctors one again nursed him back to mental health but he remained an alcoholic. He became a wanderer and virtually drank himself to death. Some of his so-called friends at Delhi and Lucknow used to get him over once in a while for an evening session where he was plied with alcohol and asked to recite his poetry till wee hours of the morning or till he could physically carry on. It was after one such session at a roof top of a hotel in Lucknow in a cold winter night where Majaaz was found dead in the morning in 1955. He was one of the most powerful Urdu poet that the Progressive Writer's Movement, a rallying center of liberals and intellectuals in all Indian languages with an all India presence. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu. He is also famous for his composition of the anthem (tarana) of Aligarh Muslim University.


• Majaz's life was short; he rose like a star but unfortunately collapsed soon.


• Brahm Prakash designed the Stamp and the First Day Cover.


• Alka Sharma designed the pictorial first day postmark. Brochure containing write-up and technical data was issued on the occasion. The First Day Cover and the Brochure are priced at Rs 2 each. Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed the stamps by wet offset in the quantity 0.4 million in the sheets of 40 stamps.

Remark:FDC posted on the issue date.

1st Bhubaneswar Philatelic Exhibition 2008-Special Cover(2nd Issue)

Special Cover Name:Rajarani Temple.
Date of Issue:31st MARCH 2008.
Details: Bhubaneswar is known as "City of Temples"hundreds of temples are there in Bhubaneswar.India post has conducted it's 1st Bhubaneswar Philatelic Exhibition'2008 on this occasion on the 2nd day a special cover was issued by India post based on Rajarani temple.
www.tourismoforissa.com/tours-to-orissa-temples/rajarani.html
Remark:Nice special cover posted to me on the issue date by a renowned philatelist of Bhubaneswar.