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

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

He also possess a certificate in International Public Policy from Syracuse University, USA. He has won many awards which includes 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. Before this, he was associated with DD and AIR as ADG 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.