At a function on January 8, 2008 the team from Tata Chemicals (TCL) was judged as the national winners of the In-house track of the Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA) 2008. This was the first year that TBLA was thrown open to Tata employees.

Mr. Ratan Tata graced the occasion and handed out the trophy and award. The winning TCL team consisted of Amitabh Tapadar, Mohammad Altaf, Anand Sinha and Madhur Vaghela. The team received a cheque of Rs 1 lakh, the coveted TBLA rolling trophy and a host of other prizes for their presentation of a business plan on 'Water distribution in large urban cities'.

TBLA brings the best minds across the globe to take up a business challenge. This is usually a strategic problem or situation relevant to the Tata Group. This business case competition aims to provide opportunities to Tata Group employees to present ideas on the future direction for the Group. This year participants were invited to identify 'Global growth opportunities for the Tata Group'.

The 1st runner-up was HVTL (Heavy Vehicles Transmission), Jamshedpur. The team consisted of P Sant Prasad, Sabas Fernando, Snajay Kumar Singh and Soumik Chatterjee.

The 2nd runner-up was TCS, USA. The team consisted of Prabhat Kumar Asthana, Vikrant Neogi and Devendra Kumar Singh.