Pankaj Agrawala
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Mr. Pankaj has been the joint secretary of GoI, Department of IT, Ministry of Communication and IT.[1] He manages e-infrastructure in the Department of IT and in that capacity represents India in the GAC of ICANN. He is a member of Department of Information Technology CIC Division[2] and Governing Council of C-MET.[3]
He is on the Board of Telecom Infrastructure Manufacturing Company, IIT and NIXI.[4]
He is also the Joint Secretary of IAS, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.[5]
Career History edit
Mr. Agrawala has held various important U.P government positions. He has worked on various field organizations in districts and divisions of Uttar Pradesh. He has worked in the rural development for more than 12 years.
He assumed the position of the director of Ministry of Urban Development in 1991 and then he became the Director of Housing Division, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment July 1994. He was a member of the Indian delegation to the Habitat II City Summit, Istanbul. After which, he did work in the Administrative Training Institute in Nainital in the Decentralised Training for Urban Development Project.
He was the secretary to the U.P. Government from 1998-2002. He has held positions in various departments including the Department of Planning; the Department of Banking and Private Capital Investments; the Department of Externally Aided Projects, there he managed five World Bank projects; the department of IT and Electronics and the department of Small Scale Industries and Export Promotion.[6]
He has been the Managing Director of the UPDESCO, the designated State Level Agency for the Electoral Commission. In this position he play a very important role in Software Development for an Elector Roll Management System. He also did a lot of work in setting up India's first IT university in the private sector.[7] He is on the board of Directors of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited.[8][9]
Mr. Agarwala attends GAC meetings.[10] He has been a panelist and session moderator at various national and International meetings and workshops related to IT and Internet.[11][12]
He is a vice chairman of GAC.[13]
Education edit
He is from the 1978 batch of IAS (Uttar Pradesh cadre). Mr. Agrawala has a Masters in Public Administration, Development Economics and History. He was a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. He completed his education from Harvard in 1994. He is an executive committee member of the Harvard Club of India.[14]
External Links edit
Interview with Pankaj Agarwala
Publications edit
Aspirations India Dialogue Series