Sam Pitroda

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Sam Pitroda
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Pitroda at the India Economic Summit 2009
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Titlagarh, Orissa Province, British India
(present–day Odisha, India)
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CitizenshipIndia (birth; current)
United States (former)[2]
Alma materMaharaja Sayajirao University
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textTelecom engineer, entrepreneur
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Indian National Congress
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Anjana Pitroda
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(m. 1966)​
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Websitewww.sampitroda.com

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Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, popularly known as Sam Pitroda (born 16 November 1942), 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.[3][4] He is the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress.[5] 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.[6][7][8]

Early life and career

In 1966, he began working for GTE in Chicago.[9] He is considered a pioneer of portable computing, as he invented the electronic diary in 1975.[10]

He holds a master's degree in Physics and Electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University (India) and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA).

Government Advisor

Between 2005 and 2009, he chaired the National Knowledge Commission in India and served as an advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the area of Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations. Since 2010, he has been the chairman of the National Innovation Council.[11]

Return to India and later career

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On a trip back to India in 1981, Pitroda was frustrated by how hard it was to call his family back in Chicago, and decided he could help modernize India's telecommunications system.[12] In 1984, Pitroda was invited to return to India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. On his return, he started the Center for Development of Telematics C-DOT, an autonomous telecom R&D organization. He had previously become a naturalized US citizen but renounced his US citizenship to take Indian citizenship again to work in the Indian Government.[13]

In the 1990s Pitroda returned to Chicago to resume his business interests. In May 1995, he became the first chairman of WorldTel initiative of the International Telecommunication Union.[14]

In 1993, Pitroda helped establish (with Darshan Shankar) the Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Tradition and The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology near Bangalore in India. The foundation promotes Ayurveda, India's traditional medicinal knowledge.[15]

In October 2009, Pitroda was appointed as advisor to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations with the rank of Cabinet Minister.[16]

In 1992, his biography Sam Pitroda: A Biography was published.[17]

The Enforcement Directorate, on 15 April 2025, filed a chargesheet against him over his alleged involvement in the National Herald case.[18][19]

Awards

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Timeline".
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'Telecom czar' focuses on his next big thing". Chicago Tribune. 8 July 2007.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda". msubaroda.ac.in. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Digital Indians: The story so far". BBC News. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.PTI (9 September 2024). "Rahul Gandhi is a strategist with deep thinking on any subject: Sam Pitroda". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  6. ^ https://msubaroda.ac.in/Distinguishedalumnidetail?id=154
  7. ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/all-you-need-to-know-about-satyanarayan-gangaram-pitroda-aka-sam-pitroda/articleshow/109970191.cms
  8. ^ https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/conversation-father-indias-it-revolution-sam-pitroda
  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sam Pitroda: Lifetime Achievement Award 2002". Dataquest. 27 December 2002. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Electronic Diary patent - CHM Revolution". Computerhistory.org. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ^ "México debe ser consciente de su mentalidad del siglo XIX: Sam Pitroda" CNN México - Fecha: 05/05/2011
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Emily Stone (26 November 2007). "Chicago's 'Mr. India'". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mike Hughlett (8 July 2007). "'Telecom czar' focuses on his next big thing". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interim Board of Directors Elects Mr. Sam Pitroda as Chairman". Press release. ITU. 15 May 1995. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About". Web site. The Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pitroda appointed adviser to PM". Deccan Herald. 7 October 2009. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mayank Chhaya (June 1992). Sam Pitroda: A Biography. Konark Publishers. ISBN 8122002757.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Singh, Shekhar (15 April 2025). "Sonia, Rahul, Pitroda named in ED chargesheet in National Herald case". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gandhis, Sam Pitroda named in ED chargesheet in National Herald case". India Today. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."UIC to award honorary degree to Sam Pitroda". India Tribune. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Honorary Degrees 1966 - 2010". University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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