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Beyond The Call Of Duty
Businessworld
|March 17, 2018
She has taken telecom to remote parts of rural India and campaigned for mass e-literacy.
CIVIL SERVANTS ARE THE BULWARK of any administration and are committed to serving the nation. A few though, go a mile beyond their call of duty and the present Secretary in the Department of Telecommunication, Aruna Sundararajan, is among them. She is perhaps, best known for her mass e-literacy campaign in Kerala, christened Akshaya.
The many milestones of her rather illustrious career include the National Optic Fibre Network Project under the Digital India programme. It was the largest connectivity project in the world with a massive budget of $3 billion that aimed to provide a minimum bandwidth of 100 Mbps.
This story is from the March 17, 2018 edition of Businessworld.
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