Shri Rakesh Mohan Agarwal ITS (1986) presently Deputy Director General (Networks and Technologies) in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India has been appointed for the post of Director (Marketing), Indian Telephone Industries limited (ITI )Limited .
Shri Agarwal designated as the Central Coordinating Officer from the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, to coordinate with Government and Industry for IPV6 migration in the country. He has also been nominated as Convener of recently formed India IPv6 Task Force for implementation of IPV6 in India including pilot projects across various sectors.
He was earlier functioning as DDG(SA) in the Telecommunication Engineering Centre, which is the telecom standardization body of Government of India, where he was responsible for IPV4 to IPV6 migration in the country and IPTV standards. He was responsible for bringing out the IPv6 policy document “National IPv6 Deployment Roadmap” for India in July 2010. He had been editor in ITU (T) for one of the recommendations in IPTV services related to quality of services.
About ITI Limited : India’s first Public Sector Unit (PSU) – ITI Ltd was established in 1948. Ever since, as a pioneering venture in the field of telecommunications, it has contributed to 50% of the present national telecom network. With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities spread across six locations and a countrywide network of marketing/service outlets, the company offers a complete range of telecom products and total solutions covering the whole spectrum of Switching, Transmission, Access and Subscriber Premises equipment.
ITI joined the league of world class vendors of Global System for Mobile (GSM) technology with the inauguration of mobile equipment manufacturing facilities at its Mankapur and Rae Bareli Plants in 2005-06. This ushered in a new era of indigenous mobile equipment production in the country. These two facilities supply more than nine million lines per annum to both domestic as well as export markets.
The company is consolidating its diversification into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to hone its competitive edge in the convergence market by deploying its rich telecom expertise and vast infrastructure. Network Management Systems, Encryption and Networking Solutions for Internet Connectivity are some of the major initiatives taken by the company.
Secure communications is the company’s forte with a proven record of engineering strategic communication networks for India’s Defence forces. Extensive in-house R&D work is devoted towards specialized areas of Encryption, NMS, IT and Access products to provide complete customized solutions to various customers.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Rakesh Mohan Agarwal the very best.