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Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar
Born	11 October 1946
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Architect of PARAM series of Supercomputers

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Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is one of the most acclaimed and internationally acknowledged scientists of India. India's leading computer magazine Dataquest has acclaimed Dr. Vijay Bhatkar amongst the star pioneers who shaped India's celebrated IT industry (US$ 100 Billion in 2012), with supercomputing capability, capacity, and infrastructure, as its crowning glory.

Life and Work

Dr. Bhatkar is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. When India was denied the supercomputer by USA, Dr. Bhatkar took the challenge of developing an indigenous supercomputer in a record time of 3 years and delivered Param 8000 in 1991 and went on to develop terascale Param 10000 in 1998, propelling India into the exclusive club of select nations, who possess this strategic technology. Based on the Param series of supercomputers, he built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which has been now made available as a grid computing facility through Garuda grid on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. Today, Dr. Bhatkar has once again taken the lead in proposing the National Mission on Development of Exascale Supercomputing Capability, Capacity and Infrastructure on National Knowledge Network. This is one of the largest projects in S&T in India with a 12th Plan budget of nearly Rs.5,000 crores that will not only transform India's computing but will also catalyze India's leadership in Science through Third & Fourth modes of scientific discovery by engaging world's largest number of researchers and scientists across a large number of research labs and universities of India collaborating together.

Dr. Bhatkar is also widely known for bringing ICT to the masses through a wide range of path-breaking initiatives, such as the celebrated GIST multilingual technology covering India's 22 official languages with 10 diverse scripts that has dissolved the language barrier on computers once for all; MKCL's computer literacy programme that made a world mark by creating 7.5 million computer literates within a decade; Education to Home (ETH) initiative for bringing the benefits of ICT to school education, in learning, teaching, administration, governance and communication & collaboration.

In the 80's, Dr. Bhatkar substantially contributed to the ushering of electronics revolution in India. He led the development of several innovations such as India's first fully solid state color television, color TV broadcast during Asiad in 1982, distributed control systems for Indian power plants and process industries, traffic control systems, automation of security systems, defense simulators and the like from the component level upward that contributed to the building of indigenous foundation of India's electronics industry which was to become India's IT industry later.

Faced with the challenges of creating a large number of software professionals in a shortest possible time, Dr. Bhatkar founded the Advanced Computer Training School (ACTS) in C-DAC which during the 90's provided over 10,000 software professionals to India's fast growing IT industry.

Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is credited with the creation of several national research labs and institutions, notably amongst them being C-DAC, ER&DC Trivandum, IIITM-K, TechnoPark, MKCL, IsquareIT, ETH Research Lab and Multiversity. Simultaneously, he has mentored several innovation-based startups.

Ever since he joined as a core member of IPAG Electronics Commission in 1972, Dr. Bhatkar has substantially contributed to shaping of India's path breaking policies in electronics, automation and control, computer and software, ICT, education and S&T and e-Governance over the successive four decades contributing to India's pre-eminence in these fields.

Dr. Bhatkar has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to PM, Member of the Governing Council of CSIR. He was also a member of the IT Task Force constituted by PM in 1998. He is Fellow of IEEE (USA) and Fellow of ACM (USA), world's foremost professional societies in Electronics and Computers respectively, besides being Fellow of CSI, INAE, IETE, NASI, MASc, etc. H has served as the Chairman of e-Governance Committees of Maharashtra and Goa.

He was called upon to address the Royal Society of London; he led the Indian delegation to South Africa to formulate India-SA initiative in advanced computing; he was a member of the Indo-Russian Long-Term Programme (ILTP) in S&T, Indo-Hungarian and Indo-French Joint Commissions, substantially contributing to India's international cooperation in electronics, computing and ICT.

Dr. Bhatkar has authored/edited over 12 books and 80 technical and research papers and addressed several university convocations, international and national conferences and conventions and public functions. His ground-breaking articulations have been widely covered by both print and broadcast media. His current research interests are in supercomputing, artificial intelligence, brain-mind-consciousness, and synthesis of science and spirituality.

Awards & Recognition

Dr. Bhatkar is one of the most decorated scientists of India in terms of national and international awards, fellowships of professional societies and public recognitions. He was conferred with the Padmashri Award in 2000 by Government of India and the Maharashtra Bhushan Award of 1999-2000, the highest recognition of the Government of Maharashtra. He is the recipient of the prestigious Jindal Prize 2012 for science and technology in the service of society. He was conferred with the Saint Jnaneshwar World Peace Prize 2010 by World Peace Center for promoting synthesis of science and spirituality in the service of humanity. He was also nominated to the Petersberg Prize 2004 for Information Technology for Development and was conferred with the prestigious Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award 2003. Dr. Bhatkar has been showered with a string of awards, notably amongst them being Adi Godrej Award 2919, C-DAC Oration Award 2006, KG Foundation's Personality of the Decade Award 2004, PGCIL Award 2001, Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award 2000, Global e-Biz Award 2001, FICCI Award 1999 for Excellence in Engineering & Technology, Lokmanya Tilak Award 1999, Rotary Excellence Award 1997, Pune's Pride Award 1996, H.K. Firodia Award 1996-97 for Lifetime Achievements in Science & Technology, Distinguished Alumni Award 1994 of IIT Delhi, VASVIK Award 1993, and Electronics Man of the Year Award 1992 and many more. For contributions to the social service and to the world of spirituality, he has been conferred with several social and spiritual awards and public recognitions.

Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is presently the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi, Chairman of ETH Research Lab, Founder Chancellor and Chief Mentor of Multiversity, Chancellor of D. Y. Patil University, and National President of Vijnana Bharati, a People's Science Movement of over 6,000 scientists across India.

Education

Dr. Bhatkar did is Ph.D. in Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1972; M.E. from M.S. University in 1968; and BE from VRCE, now VNIT, Nagpur in 1965. He has been honored with D.Sc (Honoris Causa) by Dr. D. Y. Patil University. Dr. Bhatkar is a Distinguished Alumni of both IIT, Delhi and VNIT, Nagpur.

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+Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is one of the most acclaimed and internationally acknowledged scientists of India. India's leading computer magazine Dataquest has acclaimed Dr. Vijay Bhatkar amongst the star pioneers who shaped India's celebrated IT industry (US$ 100 Billion in 2012), with supercomputing capability, capacity, and infrastructure, as its crowning glory.
-'''Dr Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar''' (born 11 October 1946) is an [[Information technology|IT]] [[computer scientist]] from India. He is best known as the architect of the [[PARAM]] series of [[Supercomputer]]s, GIST(Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology) multilingual technology and Education-To-Home mission.<ref>[http://www.eth.co.in Education To Home]</ref>
+== Life and Work ==
-Widely recognized for his noteworthy contributions in bringing information and communication technologies to the masses through a series of path-breaking initiatives, he is also credited with creation of several national institutions, notably amongst them being the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, – India’s national initiative in Supercomputing; the Electronics Research & Development Centre (ER&DC), Trivandrum – India’s largest R&D Centre in application oriented R&D in electronics; the [http://eth.co.in ETH Research Laboratory, Pune] for launching Education-To-Home mission; the International Institute of Information Technology [http://www.isquareit.ac.in I2IT], Pune – India’s largest Post-Graduate Institute for advanced education in IT; and the [[India International Multiversity]] (IIMv)  – an educational initiative for promoting the concept of integral education.
+Dr. Bhatkar is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of '''Param supercomputers'''. When India was denied the supercomputer by USA, Dr. Bhatkar took the challenge of developing an indigenous supercomputer in a record time of 3 years and delivered '''Param 8000''' in '''1991''' and went on to develop terascale '''Param 10000''' in '''1998''', propelling India into the exclusive club of select nations, who possess this strategic technology. Based on the Param series of supercomputers, he built the '''National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF)''' which has been now made available as a grid computing facility through '''Garuda grid''' on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. Today, Dr. Bhatkar has once again taken the lead in proposing the National Mission on Development of '''Exascale Supercomputing''' Capability, Capacity and Infrastructure on National Knowledge Network. This is one of the largest projects in S&T in India with a 12th Plan budget of nearly Rs.5,000 crores that will not only transform India's computing but will also catalyze India's leadership in Science through Third & Fourth modes of scientific discovery by engaging world's largest number of researchers and scientists across a large number of research labs and universities of India collaborating together.
+Dr. Bhatkar is also widely known for bringing '''ICT to the masses''' through a wide range of path-breaking initiatives, such as the celebrated '''GIST multilingual technology''' covering India's 22 official languages with 10 diverse scripts that has dissolved the language barrier on computers once for all; MKCL's computer literacy  programme that made a world mark by creating '''7.5 million computer literates''' within a decade; '''Education to Home (ETH)''' initiative for bringing the benefits of ICT to school education, in learning, teaching, administration, governance and communication & collaboration.
-==Biography and training==
-Bhatkar was born on 11 October 1946 into a [[Maratha]] family at Muramba, Akola, [[Maharashtra]]. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from [[VNIT]] Nagpur in 1965, his Master of Engineering from M.S. University, Baroda, in 1968, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from [[IIT Delhi]], in 1972.
+In the 80's, Dr. Bhatkar substantially contributed to the ushering of electronics revolution in India. He led the development of several innovations such as India's first fully solid state color television, color TV broadcast during Asiad in 1982, distributed control systems for Indian power plants and process industries, traffic control systems, automation of security systems, defense simulators and the like from the component level upward that contributed to the building of indigenous foundation of India's electronics industry which was to become India's IT industry later.
-==Career==
-He has served as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of Government of India [[Government of India]]. He was also a Member of several IT Task Forcesconstituted by the Prime Minister in 1998 to propel India as IT superpower. He was invited to address The Royal Society [[Royal society]] in 2003. He led the Indian delegation to South Africa to formulate Indo-SA initiative in Advanced Computing. He is a member of the Indo-Russian Long Term Programme (ILTP) in Science & Technology. He has also been a member of Indo-Hungarian and Indo-French Joint Commissions.
+Faced with the challenges of creating a large number of software professionals in a shortest possible time, Dr. Bhatkar founded the '''Advanced Computer Training School (ACTS)''' in C-DAC which during the 90's provided over 10,000 software professionals to India's fast growing IT industry.
-Presently he is the Chairman of the ETH Research Lab with ‘Education To Home’ (ETH) Mission of bringing education to millions of homes transcending the barriers of geographies, economic levels and languages, using advances in information technologies. He is concurrently the Chairman of DishnetDSL Ltd., India’s leading national ISP which redefined the Internet industry and pioneered Broadband Internet in India.
+Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is credited with the creation of several national research labs and institutions, notably amongst them being '''C-DAC, ER&DC Trivandum, IIITM-K, TechnoPark, MKCL, IsquareIT, ETH Research Lab''' and '''Multiversity'''. Simultaneously, he has mentored several innovation-based startups.
-Bhatkar is the founder Executive Director of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) which is India’s national initiative in Supercomputing where he led the development of PARAM Supercomputers, GIST language technology and C-DAC’s well-known Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS). Concurrently with C-DAC, he held the position of Advisor in the Department of Electronics (now Ministry of Information Technology), Government of India. He was the National Project Director of the UNDP assisted projects – Appropriate Automation Promotion Programme, Knowledge based Computer System Programme, and Fibre Optic System and Applications Promotion Programme.
+Ever since he joined as a core member of IPAG Electronics Commission in 1972, Dr. Bhatkar has substantially contributed to shaping of India's path breaking policies in electronics, automation and control, computer and software, ICT, education and S&T and e-Governance over the successive four decades contributing to India's pre-eminence in these fields.
-Post Param  propelled India into the select five nations who possessed this strategic technology. Based on PARAM series of supercomputers, Dr Bhatkar built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which is one of the largest supercomputing facilities of Asia. At NPSF, he led the development of several high-performance computing applications in collaboration with national as well as international user agencies.
+Dr. Bhatkar has served as a member of the '''Scientific Advisory Committee to PM''', Member of the Governing Council of CSIR. He was also a member of the '''IT Task Force''' constituted by PM in 1998. He is  '''Fellow of IEEE (USA)''' and '''Fellow of ACM (USA)''', world's foremost professional societies in Electronics and Computers respectively, besides being Fellow of CSI, INAE, IETE, NASI, MASc, etc. H has served as the '''Chairman of e-Governance Committees of Maharashtra and Goa'''.
-Simultaneously, in a multilingual country of 1 billion people, where only 7 percent speak English, Bhatkar launched a mission for developing multilingual technology encompassing all languages of India. In this mission, the celebrated GIST(Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology) multilingual technology was developed which made possible the use and co-existence of all Indian languages along with English on standard computers, dissolving the language barrier on computers once for all.
+He was called upon to address the '''Royal Society of London'''; he led the Indian delegation to South Africa to formulate '''India-SA initiative''' in advanced computing; he was a member of the '''Indo-Russian Long-Term Programme (ILTP) in S&T, '''Indo-Hungarian''' and '''Indo-French''' Joint Commissions, substantially contributing to India's international cooperation in electronics, computing and ICT.
-Faced with the challenge of creating a large number of software professionals in a shortest possible time, Bhatkar founded the Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) in C-DAC which over the years has provided 10,000 software professionals to the IT industry and many of them have made both impact and name for themselves in US and other advanced countries.
+Dr. Bhatkar has authored/edited over '''12 books and 80 technical and research papers''' and addressed several university convocations, international and national conferences and conventions and public functions. His ground-breaking articulations have been widely covered by both print and broadcast media. His current research interests are in '''supercomputing, artificial intelligence, brain-mind-consciousness,''' and '''synthesis of science and spirituality'''.
-Prior to this in 1987 he was Vice President of [[Tata Consultancy Services]] (TCS). which is India’s largest software enterprise. He was the Director of Electronics Research and Development Centre (ER&DC), Trivandrum from 1980-87 which, under his direction, emerged as India’s largest R&D Centre in electronics. At ER&DC, he led the development of several new products and systems leading to large-scale commercialization. Concurrently, he was the Executive Director of KELTRON, India’s first state electronics development corporation which inspired a chain of such state corporations in different states of India. At KELTRON, he implemented some of the largest projects in electronics and IT in the 80’s, such as computerization of Calcutta Metro, security systems for government, simulators for defence, and, most importantly, distributed computer control systems for large power grids, power plants and process industries of India.
+== Awards & Recognition ==
-For transforming education, he advented the concept of integral education and founded the India International Multiversity (IIMV) of which he is presently the Founder Chancellor. The IIMV is a multi-campus university founded on Indian knowledge system addressed to aspiring learners across the world Through IIMV, he is implementing several path-breaking projects relating to transformation of pilgrimage places into knowledge pilgrimage places through IT, and bringing IT to the masses through e-governance and e-services. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
+Dr. Bhatkar is one of the most decorated scientists of India in terms of national and international awards, fellowships of professional societies and public recognitions. He was conferred with the '''Padmashri''' Award in 2000 by Government of India and the '''Maharashtra Bhushan''' Award of 1999-2000, the highest recognition of the Government of Maharashtra. He is the recipient of the prestigious '''Jindal Prize''' 2012 for science and technology in the service of society. He was conferred with the '''Saint Jnaneshwar World Peace Prize''' 2010 by World Peace Center for promoting synthesis of science and spirituality in the service of humanity. He was also nominated to the '''Petersberg Prize''' 2004 for Information Technology for Development and was conferred with the prestigious '''Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award''' 2003. Dr. Bhatkar has been showered with a string of awards, notably amongst them being Adi Godrej Award 2919, C-DAC Oration Award 2006, KG Foundation's Personality of the Decade Award 2004, PGCIL Award 2001, Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award 2000, '''Global e-Biz Award''' 2001, '''FICCI Award''' 1999 for Excellence in Engineering & Technology, '''Lokmanya Tilak Award''' 1999, Rotary Excellence Award 1997, Pune's Pride Award 1996, '''H.K. Firodia Award''' 1996-97 for '''Lifetime Achievements''' in Science & Technology, '''Distinguished Alumni Award''' 1994 of IIT Delhi, '''VASVIK Award''' 1993, and '''Electronics Man of the Year Award''' 1992 and many more. For contributions to the social service and to the world of spirituality, he has been conferred with several social and spiritual awards and public recognitions.
+Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is presently the '''Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi''', Chairman of ETH Research Lab, Founder Chancellor and Chief Mentor of Multiversity, Chancellor of D. Y. Patil University, and National President of Vijnana Bharati, a People's Science Movement of over 6,000 scientists across India.
-Bhatkar also envisioned and created the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) for advanced education and research in IT. I2IT is planned as India’s largest high-end education institute with post-graduate education and research facilities for over 1000 students. I2IT was dedicated to the nation by the President of India on 28 May 2003. He is also a member of the Governing Board of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Trivandrum promoted by Government of Kerala.
+== Education ==
-Bhatkar has authored / edited 8 books and over 80 research publications in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and distributed computer control, optimal control and variational theory. His contribution in nonlocal optimal control and nonlocal variational theory based on his doctoral research have been acclaimed and his books on distributed computer control and artificial intelligence published by Marcel Dekker, New York have been used as graduate level text books in the US and Indian universities. He has recently edited over 75 web-based tutorials in engineering for India International Multiversity. He has addressed several convocations of Indian universities and delivered keynote addresses in several national and international conferences and seminars.
+Dr. Bhatkar did is '''Ph.D.''' in Engineering from '''IIT Delhi''' in 1972; M.E. from M.S. University in 1968; and BE from VRCE, now VNIT, Nagpur in 1965. He has been honored with D.Sc (Honoris Causa) by Dr. D. Y. Patil University. Dr. Bhatkar is a Distinguished Alumni of both IIT, Delhi and VNIT, Nagpur.
-Bhatkar is a Fellow of the Computer Society of India, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi, Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Science, Pune, Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Delhi, Senior Member of the IEEE, USA, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, and also several leading national and international professional societies and task forces, holding active positions in many of them.
-==Recognition==
-For his contributions to IT in India, he was conferred with the [[Padma Shri]] award in 2000 by the Government of India & the Maharashtra Bhushan Award 1999-2000, the highest recognition of Government of Maharashtra. He is also a recipient of several prestigious national awards, notably Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., (PGCIL) Award 2001 for Excellence in Information Technology, Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award 2000 in Electronics & Information Technology, Priyadarshni Award 2000 for contributions in the field of Information Technology, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) Award for Excellence in Engineering & Technology 1999, Lokmanya Tilak Award 1999, Rotary Excellence Award 1997, Pune’s Pride Award for Excellence in the World of Education for the year 1996, the H.K. Firodia Award for life-time achievements in science and technology 1995-96, Distinguished Alumni Award 1994 of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Vivdhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK) Award for 1993, Ramlal Wadhwa Gold Medal Award 1992 by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE),, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) Award (1984–85), Electronics Man of the Year 1992 Award by Electronics Component Industries Association (ELCINA)), Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Award to ER&DC for excellence in Research & Development in Electronics (1983), and Gold Medal Award of Indian Geo-technical Society (1976). He is also conferred with several social and spiritual awards, amongst them being Saraswati Award, Vidarbha Gaurav Award, Pune Citadel Award, Vidarbha Bhushan Award, Punya-Bhushan Award, and Gratitude Award. He is a Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (2009).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1843762&srt=year&year=2009 |title=ACM: Fellows Award / Vijay Bhatkar |publisher=Fellows.acm.org |date= |accessdate=2011-05-02}}</ref>
-== Milestones ==
-'''1972-1980'''
-Ph.D. from IIT Delhi in 1972.
-Internationally acknowledged research in Nonlocal Systems; Modelling, Simulation and Optimal Control. Research Monographs with Prof. DGB Edelen, Lehigh University, USA
-Member of the core group of Electronics Commission which initiated the Electronics revolution in India. Setting Up of Appropriate Automation Promotion Laboratory (AAPL) for promoting right kind of automation in Indian process and manufacturing industries. Catalysis and promotion of automation in Indian industries from pneumatic control to modern distributed computer control systems.
-Wide-scale introduction and promotion of microprocessor education in India
-'''1980-1987'''
-Director of Electronics Research & Development Centre (ER&DC) & Keltron, Trivandrum.
-Indigenous development of electronic products & systems, several firsts in India, such as CTV, CCTVs, Traffic Control Systems, microprocessor based industrial Control Systems, Industrial drivers, Defence Simulators, Automation of large power plants & process industries states. Automation of Calcutta Metro.
-ER&DC emerged as India’s largest centre for application oriented R&D in Electronics and KELTRON as India’s leading State Electronics Development Corporation to be emulated by other States of India ushering Electronics Revolution in India in the 80’s.
-'''1988-1998'''
-Launched Indian national initiative in Supercomputing. Creation of C-DAC. Design, Development and Delivery of PARAM 8000 in 1991 & PARAM 10000 in 1998. India becomes world’s third nation to develop supercomputers. PARAM Supercomputers exported to Russia, Singapore, Germany and Canada.
-Development of GIST multilingual technology covering 16 major languages with 10 different scripts Language barrier on computers vanishes in India.
-Launch of ACTS for fastest creation of IT professionals. Over 10000 professionals created for India’s IT industry in the 90s.
-Creating Kerala Infotech Park in Trivandrum, one of the finest IT parks of India.
-'''1998–present'''
-Creation of Education-To-Home (ETH) Research Laboratory and subsequently [[Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL)]] for bringing computer literacy & education to millions of learners transacting the barriers of distance, languages and economic levels.
-Launch of DishnetDSL, which redefined the Internet industry and pioneered broadband revolution through DSL technology. Contributed to the development of world leading broadband technology to provide 10Mbit/s connectivity to homes for triple play services covering voice, data, and video, at lowest per port cost.
-Launch of International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) which has emerged as India’s leading and largest post-graduate educational institute for Advanced IT education and research. I2IT goes international by setting up centres in Russia, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, etc.
-Launched India International Multiversity (IIMv) for integral education and transformational education. Initiated the mission of transforming India’s pilgrimage places into knowledge pilgrimage places. Contribution to bringing India’s spiritual & cultural heritage on Internet. Initiation of several projects for bringing the far-reaching impact of ICT to the masses
-== Awards and reviews ==
-'''ICT and S&T Awards'''
-•	'''2003'''  ''Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award'' (the highest award of Indian IT Industry)<br />''Annasaheb Chirmule Memorial Award'' for Contributions to IT
-•	'''2002'''  ''Visweswariya Memorial Award'', Kolhapur
-•	'''2001'''  ''Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL) Award'' for Excellence in Information Technology
-•	'''2000'''  ''Padmashree'' Award by Government of India (one of the highest civilian awards of Government of India)<br /> ''Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award'' in Electronics & Information Technology<br />''Priyadarshni Award'' for Contributions in the field of Information Technology
-•	'''1999- 2000'''  ''Maharashtra Bhushan Award'' by Government of Maharashtra (the highest award conferred by Govt. of Maharashtra)
-•	'''1999'''  ''Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FICCI) Award'' for Excellence in Engineering & Technology<br /> ''Lokmanya Tilak Award''
-•	'''1998''' ''e-Biz Innovation Contest Award'', Dubai Internet City (for best innovation amongst 1325 entries from 35 countries)
-•	'''1997''' ''Rotary Excellence Award''<br /> ''Pune’s Pride Award'' for Excellence in the World of Education
-•	'''1995-96''' ''H. K. Firodia Award'' for Life-time Achievements in Science & Technology
-•	'''1995''' ''Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kentra (VASVIK) Award''
-•	'''1994''' ''Distinguished Alumni Award'' of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
-•	'''1992''' ''Electronics Man of the Year Award'' by Electronics Component Industries Association (ELCINA)
-•	'''1983''' ''Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FICCI) Award'' to ER&DC for excellence in Research &Development in Electronics
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