3 IETE Newsletter Vol 6 No. 4, 2004
 

 

Shri K S Prakash Rao (F113444L) is Managing Director in M/s Powertel Solutions, Hyderbad. Earlier he was Chief Engineer, APSEB. He has planned and executed 2000 km Optic Fibre Super-Communications highway on APTRANSCO’s infrastructure. Shri Rao has undergone specialized training on Total Quality Management in USA. He has served IETE Hyderabad Centre in many capacities including Hony Treasurer and has been associated in organizing programs during Silver Jubilee Year of the centre. He has been actively participating in the activities of IETE Hyderabad Centre since many years.

Shri S A Soundara Rajan (F024609L) is DMIT, FIETE, FBES, Member of IEEE & CSI. He is serving IETE since 1976 and credited with enrolling members, setting-up computer and electronic laboratory. He served AIR and Doordarshan for 34 years and retired from the post of Chief Engineer. He is a nominated member of Academic Council of Anna University. He has been responsible for good interaction and liaison with industry and sister institutions.

(Dr M L Bala is elected to the Council for the year 2004-06)
Wg Cdr (Dr) M L Bala (Retd) (F047822L)
is MSc, PhD, C.Engg (IETE), F-BES. Dr Bala is known for his technical writing. His book "Defence Science" was released by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the Hon'ble President of India, the then Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri. He has been honoured for his technical writings at national level. Dr Bala has a long and close association with IETE. He conducted career training during 1982-86 for DEAL Dehradun Technical Assistants for AMIETE. Later on he was Course Coordinator from 1992-96 and conducted "Education through Satellite" programme (1993-96). Dr Bala was Delhi Local Centre's Executive Committee Member (1996-97), Hony Secretary (1997-98), and IETE Council Member (1998-2001), Hony Treasurer (1999-2001). He has been responsible for project COILNet (Content Creation in Emerging Technologies in Indian languages). He instituted an award for meritorious DipIETE girl students at Delhi Local Centre.

 

Ex-Officio Members of the Council (2004-06)

Shri S K Aggarwal (F015676L), Chairman IETE Delhi Centre, is an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineer with wide ranging experience of working on projects, programs and committees of various Government Departments. Presently he is working in the Director Grade in Dept of IT, MC& IT, New Delhi. He is an IETE graduate and an MBA in Finance. Shri Aggarwal has been serving IETE Delhi for some time.

Shri V Appakutty (F082715L), Chairman IETE Chennai Centre, is working as Director, Doordarshan, Chennai. He has authored seven technical books and is a recipient of Indira Gandhi Sadbhavana Award, besides being a Lawyer and Guest Faculty in Anna University. He is associated with IETE activities for more than a decade.

Brig Ramesh Chandra (Retd) (F069578L), is MTech in Management & Systems and BE in Electronics & Telecommunication. He served the Indian Army for 35 years with distinction and held many prestigious assignments including Deputy Director General Communication Planning, Army Headquarters, where he was responsible for developing communication concepts based on future technology, trials, evaluation and induction of communication equipment and spectrum management for the Army. He has also served as Chief Signal Officer of important areas. At present he is the Plant Head, Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, Ghaziabad (UP). He has been associated with IETE for last 15 years as a Life Fellow.

Prof Janardhan Vasudev Dave (F051034L), Chairman IETE Ahmedabad Centre is a BE (Electronics & Communication), ME (Electronics) both from Gujarat University. Presently, he is heading Electronics & Communication Dept of L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. He is a senior member of many professional bodies including DOEACC, SAC, Ahmedabad, GPSC for selection of academic posts and Chairman, Board of Study of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Gujarat University. He has served as Hony Treasurer IETE Ahmedabad Centre for the year 2002-2004