Divya Delhi:  According to a British government release, Tata Group Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran has been awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) for his contributions to UK-India economic ties.I am honored to receive this award, for which I thank His Majesty, King Charles. I would want to emphasize how delighted we are at the Tata Group to maintain such a strong strategic engagement with the UK across the technology, consumer, hotel, steel, chemicals, and automotive sectors,” Chandrasekaran said on teh honour."Very proud of our famous British brands like Tetley and Jaguar Land Rover." We have almost 70,000 UK employees. He said, "We have fruitful, world-class research and academic partnerships with great institutions in this country, including the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick, and the University of Swansea."I also like to thank HM Government for supporting the Tata Group. I look forward to furthering our great, long-lasting UK partnership. Thank you once again for paying me this enormous honour,” the Tata Group Chairman said.Chandrasekaran is Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company and promoter of more than 100 Tata operational companies with aggregate annual revenues of more than USD 100 billion, according to the information supplied on the website of Tata Consultancy Services.He was made Tata Sons chairman in January 2017 after joining in October. Chandrasekaran is prominent in India's bilateral business forums with the US, UK, Australia, and Japan. He served as the head of NASSCOM, the premier trade group for IT services industries in India, in. He also chairs the boards of Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, and Tata Consultancy Services, where he was CEO from 2009 until 2017. He joined TCS from university and worked there for 30 years before becoming Chairman. Chandra became CEO and Managing Director of the top global IT solutions and consulting organization, .