Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, appointed Executive Director and Chairman of the Project Board, C-DoT

Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, has been appointed Executive Director and Chairman of the Project Board, C-DOT. Dr. Upadhyay holds a Ph.D in Corporate Strategy & Policy from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy & Management (2004). He has a Master of Technology degree from IIT Roorkee.

He also holds a certificate in International Public Policy from Syracuse University, USA. He is a winner of several awards including J. C. Bose award (1987) by MoD, National e-Governance award (2007) by GoI, CIO 100 award (2007) by International Data Group (IDG), and Deepak C. Jain Award (2009) by IIM Bangalore.

He is an officer of the Indian Telecommunication Services of the GoI. Prior to his present assignment, he was working as ADG for DD and AIR and heading South Zone of Doordarshan and AIR consisting of Karnataka, TN, Kerala, AP, Telangana, Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He was responsible for bringing new content to the viewers and digitizing the decades old archival content of Doordarshan and AIR. Both current and archival content were made available to the public through YouTube and Prasar Bharati app.

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