Days after Ratan Tata death, Tata Group’s decides to pay tribute to late businessman by constructing a building…

Tata Group and Somerville College, University of Oxford on Monday announced a collaboration to construct a landmark building to honour late Ratan Tata. To be named the Ratan Tata Building, it represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to expand Somerville’s teaching and learning space, support research with global impact, and articulate the college’s vision of a sustainable and forward-looking academic community, a joint statement by the Tata group and Somerville College said.

The construction will begin in Spring 2025 at the heart of the Oxford University’s new Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, enabled by the significant philanthropic donation from the Tata Group, it added.

While the decision to name the new building in honour of Tata in recognition for his lifelong work as a philanthropist and humanitarian was taken some time ago, his death felt so keenly throughout India and the world, gives even greater meaning to this lasting tribute to him, the statement said.