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Indian Telecommunication Service
National Emblem
National Emblem
Service Overview
Establishment 1965
Country India
Training centre National Telecom Academy and Advance Level Telecommunication Training Centre(ALTTC)
Controlling Authority Department of Telecommunications under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Cadre Size 2500 Posts

The Indian Telecommunications Service, widely known as ITS, and earlier known as 'Telegraph Engineering Service Class I'(TES Class I)is an organised civil service of Government of India.[1] The appointment to this service is done through Combined Engineering Services exam held every year by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India. ITS is a Group A Central Civil Service of the Union of India. The service was created to meet the technical and managerial functions of the government in areas related to telecommunications.The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) had been run for years by this permanent cadre of technical civil servants called the Indian Telecom Service (ITS).

The officers of ITS are working in senior management and administrative positions in the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), Telecom Consultants India Limited (TCIL), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI),Telecom Dispute Settlement Administrative Tribunal (TDSAT), Unique Identification Authority of India (UID), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) etc.At present, ITS officers are also working in many other central and state government assignments on deputation.

Recruitment and induction

Further information: Indian Engineering Services

A competitive examination called combined engineering services examination is conducted by the UPSC for recruitment to the ITS. Recruitment to Group A and Group B Services/Posts are made under the following categories of Engineering:

I. Civil Engineering
II. Mechanical Engineering
III. Electrical Engineering
IV. Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Appointments to ITS are made in category IV, i.e., Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. The appointment to following services are also made through the same exam:

Training

After recruitment through Combined Engineering Services Examination, the officers undergo a two years course at Advanced level telecommunication training centre (ALTTC),[2] Ghaziabad and Bharatratna Bhimrao Ambedkar institute of telecom training (BRBRAITT),Jabalpur[3] for management and telecommunications engineering. The officers are also deputed for on job field training in various areas.The ITS officers were trained at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) until 1980.

Department of Telecommunication has set up a new training centre named as "National Telecom Academy" at Ghaziabad for its officers belonging to technical cadre ie ITS and TES.

Appointments and responsibilities

As in the other Central Services, the officers are liable to be transferred and posted in anywhere in India. The officers of ITS work in the DOT, TRAI, TDSAT, BSNL, MTNL,Ministry of Home Affairs,UID,Ministry of Power,Department of Pharmaceuticals, Department of Defence, National Highway Authority of India, RITES, IRCON,TCIL,UPSC,SSC and various other Ministries and Statutory bodies of India.

The following officers of ITS are currently working in high positions :

  • Kuldeep Goyal, Member, CAT [4]
  • S.C. Misra, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL[5]
  • R. K. Agrawal, Director, BSNL[5]
  • R. Wadhawa, Director, BSNL[5]
  • A. K. Garg, Director, BSNL[5]
  • K. Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, MTNL[6]
  • S. P. Pachauri, Director, MTNL[6]
  • R. K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, TCIL [7]
  • V. K. Sharma, Director, TCIL [7]
  • Vimal Wakhloo, Director, TCIL [7]
  • R. K. Arnold, Secretary, TRAI[8]
  • Mr. M K Shedha, Chief General Manager, Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management (CETTM)

[9]

Present(2009) cadre strength in different time scales is given below:

Grade Position In The Central Government Strength
Apex Scale Member (equivalent to secretary) 2
Higher Administrative Grade+ (HAG+) Advisor (equivalent to Additional secretary) 1
Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) Chief General Manager/Senior Deputy Director General 55
Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) General Manager/Deputy Director General 658
Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) Deputy General Manager/Director 875
Senior time Scale (STS) Divisional Engineer 234
Junior time Scale (JTS) Assistant Divisional Engineer 49

Cadre controlling authority

Member (Services), Telecom Commission of India is cadre controlling authority of ITS, Group A. Member(Services)is ex-officio Secretary to Government of India. S. C. Misra is currently working as Member(Services) , Department of Telecom, Government of India [10]

Indian Telecom Service Association

The officers of ITS are represented by the Indian Telecom Service Association in different forums. N.K.Chhoker and A.S. Meena are currently president and secretary, respectively.[11]

Honours

Many members of ITS are awarded by many national and international organisations for their significant contributions.Few of them are enlisted below,

1.Shri G.B. Meemasi was the first ITS to receive Padma Shri for his work in Electronic Switching in DOT.He was the founder Director of CDOT and father of RAX. Shri SM Agarwal(Secretary DOT) and Shri P.S. Saran(Member Services) were other subsequent recipients, from ITS.

2. Dr.T.H.Chowdary[12] was awarded the L.V.Ramaiah award in 1989 for distinguished service to society thro’ telecoms.[13] He was conferred a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 1999 for distinguished service to engineering, education & IT services.He was one of the eminent five Engineering Personalities who were felicitated by Institution of Engineers (India), at its Fifteenth Indian Engineering Congress, on 19 December 2000, in Hyderabad.He was the founding Chairman and Managing Director of India’s Overseas Communications Corporation (VSNL).[14] From May, 1997 to May 2004, he was the Information Technology Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, in the rank of a Minister of State.[15] He has authored number of books on telecommunication, to mention a few;

  • Are You Listening?(The story of his struggles in the DOT to deliver service and not merely administer rules)
  • Right Number; Cheap Service, Telephones Unlimited(Play on how telephone services are administered)
  • We the Telephone men in your ServiceDelineation of the duties, functions and work of DOT’s telephone employees)
  • From America to Andhra(Plays with telegraph & telephone services as themes) (Telugu)
  • The Tales the Telephones Tel(Telephone Cheppina Kathalu in Telugu-First persons narration of telecom persons while on duty)
  • Telephoning Rural Areas of Andhra Pradesh
  • Information and Communication Technologies into the New Millennium(Talks on All India Radio: August and September, 1999)
  • Issue in Telecom De-monopolisation in India(compilation of 70 articles appeared in Computers Today from 1994 to 1998)
  • P-Telcos in India – Why did India get them so wrong?(Running Commentary on analysis of the liberalization, demonopolisation and independent regulation process for Telecommunications in India)
  • Information & Communication Technologies for Classes and Masses
  • India Under Strain (compilation of 70 articles)
  • India! Speak Up!! (Compilation of 60 articles)
  • India Explorations (Compilation of 57 articles)
  • India Under Assault – Series I
  • Aallochinchandi (Compilation of 55 Articles in Telugu)

3. Dr D.P.S Seth is a former member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and he has also been chairman of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).

4.Mr.Prithipal Singh was the CMD under whom the GSM got to a flying start in BSNL.

5. Mr. P. C. Gupta has written a book on 'Data Communications And Computer Networks'.The book is useful for all telecom professionals.The book is published by PHI and EAN number is 9788120328464.

Retirements

Many ITS officers will be retiring from government service shortly on attaining current superannuation age of 60 years. Year wise retirement position is given below,

Year Number of officers retiring
2011 30
2012 44
2013 50
2014 51
2015 56

See also

References

  1. ^ Notification dated 29 May 1992 published in part II, section 3, sub-section (1) of the gazette of India, Government of India
  2. ^ "ALTTC". Alttc.bsnl.co.in. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  3. ^ BRBRAITT
  4. ^ "BSNL's CMD Kuldeep Goyal to join Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) – Jaipur". Telecomtiger.com. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d "BSNL board of directors". Bsnl.co.in. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  6. ^ a b "MTNL board of directors". Mtnl.net.in. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  7. ^ a b c "TCIL board of directors". Tcil-india.com. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  8. ^ {{ http://www.trai.gov.in/right%20to%20information/directory.pdf}}
  9. ^ "Welcome to MTNL's Centre for Excellence in Telelcom Technology and Management". Cettm.mtnl.in. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  10. ^ http://www.dot.gov.in/miscellaneous/member%20(S).pdf
  11. ^ "ITSA official website". Itsa.org.in. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  12. ^ http://www.drthchowdary.net
  13. ^ "tana09.com" (PDF). tana09.com. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  14. ^ "http://www.drthchowdary.net/ - About Me". //www.drthchowdary.net/. Retrieved 1 September 2010. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= and |title= (help)
  15. ^ http://www.rakshaonline.org/Chowdary.jsp

Further reading

  • Connecting India: Indian Telecom Story, by S.D. Saxena. Published by Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi,2009 ISBN: 8122007686, ISBN-13:9788122007688.
  • Indian bureaucracy at the crossroads, by Syamal Kumar Ray. Published by Sterling, 1979.
  • MB Athreya,January–February 1996,Chairman of the Telecom Restructuring Committee, Government of India (1990–91).'India's telecommunications policy:A paradigm shift' Telecommunications Policy Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 11–22
  • 'DOT sets deadline for ITS officers' India Telecom,Vol.11,No.1,January 2005, page 3
  • Gairola, Manoj (12 November 2009). "PM calls for BSNL's performance review as revenues fall". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 1 September 2010.

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