The origins of it lie in Mithapur, a remote town in Gujarat, where a TATA engineer, Darbari Seth, was concerned about the enormous quantities of energy his factory spent on desalination. He proposed the idea of a research institute to tackle the depletion of natural resources and energy scarcity. J. R. D. Tata, chairman of the TATA Group, liked the idea and accepted the proposal. It was setup with a modest corpus of 35 million rupees. On the invitation of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, it registered in Delhi in 1974 . As the scope of its activities widened over a period of time, it was renamed removing the founding group name with the same intials. Which Institute ?
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