Anshu Prakash to take over as new Telecom Secretary from 1st August.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) Wednesday cleared the appointment of Anshu Prakash as the new secretary in the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), replacing Aruna Sundararajan, who is retiring on July 31 after a two-year stint.
Prakash, a 1986-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre has been currently working as an additional secretary in the telecom department. Prior to this role, he was appointed as a chief secretary of Delhi.
His immediate challenge would be making the upcoming spectrum auction a success as well as the revival of the two public-sector telcos- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) and The BharatNet initiative which has just crossed half way mark and that aims to connect 250,000 gram panchayats (GPs), or village blocks, through optical fibre has crossed the halfway mark, while broadband services are ready in over 1.16 lakh village panchayats out of the 1.21 lakh connected with optical fibre network,which will connect to 600,000 villages, is 100% funded by the Centre and has a completion deadline of March 31, 2019.
Prakash is an economics graduate from the St. Stephen's College ,with MBA degree from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University .
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