New Delhi: India's biggest industrialist Ratan Tata passed away in a Mumbai hospital late on Wednesday night. Ratan Tata was ill for the last several days. There is a wave of mourning in the country over his death. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also expressed grief over his death. He was a businessman as well as a social worker. Let us know about some important facts related to his life...

10 facts about Ratan Tata (Ratan Tata Life Facts)

1. Ratan Naval Tata was the great-grandson of Jamsetji Tata, who founded the Tata Group. Ratan Tata was born on 28 December 1937 in Mumbai to Naval Tata and Sooni Tata.

2. Ratan Tata received his primary education from Campion School in Mumbai. He studied here till class 8. After this, he studied further from John Conan School (Mumbai), Bishop Cotton School (Shimla) and Riverdale Country School (New York).

3. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Cornell University in New York in 1959. He began his career with Tata Steel in 1961. This experience laid the foundation for his future leadership role within the group.

4. He was raised by his grandmother Navajbai Tata after his parents separated in 1948. There were talks of Ratan Tata's marriage many times, but Ratan Tata never married.

5. He once admitted in an interview that he fell in love while working in Los Angeles. But due to the ongoing Indo-China war in 1962, the girl's parents refused to let him come to India.

6. He rose from auto to steel conglomerate chairman in 1991 and ran the group founded by his great-grandfather more than a hundred years ago until 2012. He began restructuring the Tata Group at a time when the Indian economy was being liberalised.

7. He played a key role in the business expansion of popular cars including Tata Nano and Tata Indica. He also helped Tata Tea acquire Tetley, Tata Motors acquire Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Steel acquire Corus in 2004.

8. In 2009 Ratan Tata fulfilled his promise of making the world's cheapest car accessible to the middle class. He launched the Tata Nano priced at ₹ 1 lakh.

9. He was the chairman of Tata Group from 1991 to 2012. Then he was the interim chairman from October 2016 to February 2017. Under his leadership, Tata Group's revenue increased more than 40 times and profit increased more than 50 times.

10. After stepping down as Chairman, he was honoured with the title of Honorary Chairman of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals.