The winners were selected by a team of jury members from the Indian ICT industry and senior editors of TelecomLead.com.
JURY MEMBERS
Satya N Gupta (jury chairman), is heading Bluetown’s India and Asia operations with the task of connecting the unconnected people in rural areas of world.
# He has been associated with International Telecommunication Union (An UN body) as an NGN expert and also Commonwealth Telecom Organisation (CTO) as an NGN Trainer.
# Vice-President and Trustee of PTC India Foundation
# Jt. Secretary General of APT-ITU Foundation of India
# Member of India IPV6 Task Force oversight committee an Apex body of the Govt. for IPV6 implementation
# Nominee Director of IT-ITES SSC of National Skill Development Corporation
Vimal Wakhlu is the former chairman and managing director of Telecommunications Consultants India (TCIL), a Government of India Enterprise. He has been involved in TCIL in various capacities from December 2006 till January 2016, including executive director (Transmission) and director (Technical) and chairman & managing director. TCIL has scaled new heights during this phase, besides bagging some large value global and domestic projects.
# started his career with NHPC in 1977
# Worked at Overseas Communications Services (later VSNL and now Tata Communications) till 1983
# Held various positions in DOT (Department of Telecom) from 1983 to 2000
# Held top positions in BSNL from 2000 to 2006
RK Mishra, ex DDG, Department of Telecommunications (DOT), India
Prof. DLN Shastry of Sharda University