Trust of Tata, Humara Bajaj, Pune & Real Estate!

 

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“I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.” … J.R.D. Tata

“Our nation is growing not because of its size or democracy, but because of its outstanding entrepreneurs and hardworking people” … Rahul Bajaj

 

Two news in the media I came across in Feb 22 have been read by most & as usual forgotten soon but I felt like writing as a businessman by myself (a small one but ok); one was about Air India i.e., our country’s official (read as govt) airline finally has been transferred to Tata’s & second was, demise of Mr Rahul Bajaj! Very few names in this country have succeeded in achieving near impossible thing & that is, gaining commercial or say professional success in respective field along with popularity & yet gain respect of the masses! That too when the profession is production industry which usually is considered as “Baniyegiri” (no offense to any caste or religion, but read as money making) or say politics which is always considered as corruption, yet being in such field & able to achieve above feat is definitely needs to have some special qualities & no wonder when the name is Tata then you have such! The present heir of the great JRD i.e., Ratan Tata follows the same foot step when it comes to being successful on all three fronts i.e., commercial, popularity & respect & with successfully bidding to buy Air India once again the name Tata has proved that, life is a circle! And so was with Mr Bajaj, though with due respect the name Bajaj is equally known in every household of not just State but country & now in many outside countries also, yet the glamour (or say respect) the name tata has got, Bajaj never had & that doesn’t take away a bit what Mr Rahul Bajaj has achieved. As per me, no success can be compared rather should be compared on the scale of popularity or people’s choice but only on the outcome it has given of making the society better or surrounding better, especially when it comes to measure success of an individual! And on that scale of achievements, Rahul Bajaj is definitely at par with the Tatas’!

Ohk, coming back to the news, one of Tata group of companies buying our country’s national air-lines i.e., Air India along with its domestic arm i.e., Indian Airlines (I hope, its active). I won’t explain about Tata group as most of us in some way or other has been exposed to the name by using some product, may it be salt (Tata Namak), tea, a car or a watch or online shopping service & few of us may be lucky to experience their hospitality service under Taj Hotels which are supposedly the best five-star hotels in the country! The name Tata is linked with our lives knowingly or unknowingly on many fronts & then the second news is as I mentioned, demise of Mr Rajul Bajaj, the pioneer of Bajaj Scooters which also became sign of prosperity for most middle-class families of this country as well there are many other Bajaj products mainly related to electrical or mechanical goods though! The reason of taking cognizance of these two names is not the core of those news i.e., Air-Lines for Tata news & demise news of Mr Rahul Bajaj for Bajaj group but relation of these two groups with Pune city or say region & real estate or the way they helped changing the future of this city on a better side of-course!

Today Pune enjoys one of the best liveable cities (read as region now) where its not about just having good infrastructure like water supply, drainage, un-interrupted power supply & many such which not many cities enjoy in our developing country. I am sure many people will frown over this statement but I will ask those people to definitely visit some other similar cities in our country to know what kind of life their citizens live in & then I will like to see the frown again! And then its not just physical infrastructure which with some money & will of the “Mai Bapp” Govt, can be created in any city or town but what’s more important is, the social infrastructure which Pune is blessed with & that is Cultural, Educational & Career or say Employment infrastructure! And this is where not just city but the industry I am in i.e., real estate industry is directly related to as you can build a wonderful city with all possible infrastructure & make it connected with every major town or city but how you are going to make people around come to stay here in this city, is the main challenge & when it comes to Pune that challenge has been taken-up by these two names i.e., Tata & Bajaj!

Do mind, any city prospers by the people living in it i.e., citizens, as whatever these citizens create, spend or live, that defines the future of the city, is what the history tells us! And these citizens need a cause, first to get attracted to the city & then to be retained in that city, as the world is full of the cities which prospered at the start & in some time people flee as the cause of living in that city got lost & so the city also got lost in the time machine which is cruel!  But in Pune what we observed is nearly some fifty years back this was also a town like any other town, just a shade better because of natural water supply & greenery & access to the Mayanagari i.e., Mumbai then Bombay! It may be in the late 60’s or may be 70’s for the Telco i.e., a Tata company, Telco, got started with manufacturing of four wheelers & then Bajaj started their iconic product “Scooter” i.e., a two-wheeler vehicle. Very few could have realized back then that Tata & Bajaj, these two names are like two wheels for Pune named bullet train which was going to outrun any other settlements in the country soon, which we are witnessing today!

For the country or say investors, Tatas’ & Bajajs’ indeed have contributed by revenue & returns, in the form of huge taxes & profits they made as well got many products in the range of buying capacity of average Indian middle-class family & made their life a bit easier. But what these two have contributed for Pune is lot more than just making life comfortable rather they have helped in actually building lives of the millions here! Back then in past, as I mentioned Pune was just a social cultural city which is considered as Pensioner’s Town i.e., post retirement what Bajaj, Tata made this town is to make it as Career City where people come not for retirement but to earn & build their career so they can later retire happily, & I think this is the biggest contribution (read as gift) these two names has made in making of Pune! As with Telco & Bajaj came along jobs & money & avenues of trading, business, production via ancillary units & service providers & what not, all of which has helped not just real estate but every other profession or business rather overall society! Which later the Education & IT industry thrived on here, as the students were getting absorbed in local units so educational institutes grew here & IT is a parasite branch (no offense) as technology upgrading is required to make finer products & at cheaper cost but for that we need the production houses in the first places which were here! And like a chain reaction in an Atomic Plant, then every development kept happening (read as multiplying) on better side with the Midas Touch of Tata & Bajaj here in Pune, fruits of which has been most enjoyed by the real estate!

Agreed land is immovable & in parallel to the gold investment yet owning land in some form is a dream of every Indian but you can’t buy property for investment or for living in deserts of Rajasthan or in the mountains of Himalayas or amidst the forests of Madhya Pradesh, right? You buy land for investment or a home for living where your investments will grow (is what you think) or you can make a decent living, there only you buy your home & so become Pune a dear destination for every person around Central India to have some property here & the trend is still on!  PCMC i.e., Pimpri Chinchwad is classic example of what just two industries can do to the society as the entire PCMC came out of the farm lands & fallow lands just because of the employment generated by tata & Bajaj here, what more you can expect as a success of some business house! The real estate all across the world thrives on three things i.e., employment, education & culture; the starting push of employment has been given by Tata & Bajaj & culture was already present, so education followed & so followed the growth of the entire society in & around Pune region! This is why the real estate of Pune region should be grateful to Tata & Bajaj as or else most of us would have still been worried for their own career had these two not started their ventures here half a century back!

Today JRD Tata has left long back while Ratan Tata is unofficially retired & Rahul Bajaj also departed this world but what they have blessed us with will n be always with us & its not their products or their industries here in Pune but its their vision about the society & their way to reach to the destination they wanted to be! These are the true gifts for the real estate industry, if Tata name is other side of Trust, then Bajaj stands for Vision & Hard work! And if we combine all these three i.e., Trust, Vision & Hard Work then no hurdle is tough enough for stopping us; it’s a Mantra which the real estate (read as, every entrepreneur) should recite & act all the time as that will be the right tribute to Mr JRD Tata & Mr Rahul Bajaj, as then only they will Happily rest in Peace, wherever they are!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

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