Dr. RajKumar Upadhyay

Executive Director
C-DOT

Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay is the newly appointed Executive Director and Chairman of the C-DOT Project Board. He has a Ph.D. in Corporate Strategy & Policy from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and is also an alumnus of IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy & Management (2004). He holds a Master of Technology degree from IIT Roorkee. He also possesses a certificate in International Public Policy from Syracuse University, USA. He has won many awards which include J. C. Bose award (1987) by MoD, the National e-Governance award (2007) by GoI, CIO 100 award (2007) by International Data Group (IDG), and Deepak C. Jain Award (2009) by IIM Bangalore. He is an officer of the Indian Telecommunication Services of the GoI. Before this, he was associated with DD and AIR as ADG and headed the South Zone of Doordarshan and AIR consisting of Karnataka, TN, Kerala, AP, Telangana, Puducherry, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He was responsible for bringing new content to the viewers and digitizing the decades-old archival content of Doordarshan and AIR. Both current and archival content was made available to the public through YouTube and Prasar Bharati app.