The Road to Sakchi began in Pittsburgh . At the turn of the century, Jamshetji Tata went to Pittsburgh and asked geologist Charles Page Perin to help him find the site to build his dream— India 's first steel plant. The search for a site rich in iron, coal, limestone and water began in April 1904 in today's Madhya Pradesh. The intrepid hunters were C M Weld, Dorab Tata and Shapurji Saklatvala. It took nearly three years of painstaking prospecting across vast stretches of inhospitable terrain for Lady Luck to smile. And smile she did, near a village called Sakchi (now part of Tatanagar), on the densely forested stretches of the Chota Nagpur plateau. The hunt was over. But a greater adventure was yet to begin. The task was awesome. Building a steel plant was a titanic enterprise. And so was the Steel City . But Jamshetji's blueprint was clear. It looked beyond a mere row of workers' huts and insisted upon installing all the comforts and conveniences a city could provide. When the first spade struck the soil, the seeds were sown. India 's Steel City took and sprang to life.