Key facts
- Born
- 4 May 1942, Titlagarh
- State of birth
- Titlagarh, Odisha
- Sector
- Business & industry
- Profession
- Indian businessman and former adviser to the Prime Minister of India
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, popularly known as Sam Pitroda, is an Indian official, telecommunications engineer, innovator, and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, into a Gujarati family. He served as an advisor to Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh during their respective tenures as the Prime Minister of India, as well as to the United Nations. He is the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress. He is often credited as the “Father of India’s Telecom Revolution” for his role in modernizing the country’s communications infrastructure and shaping India’s technology landscape during the 1980s.
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Timeline
- 1942Born in Titlagarh
- 1987Becomes advisor to the Prime Minister
- 1993Awarded the Om Prakash Bhasin Award
- 2000Awarded the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award
- 2004Becomes advisor to the Prime Minister
- 2005Becomes chairperson
- 2008Awarded the Canada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award
- 2012Becomes chancellor
- 2013Becomes chancellor
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · World Economic Forum on Flickr / Eric Miller