Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar
Award Year: 1995 | Degree Year: 1972
Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar was born on 19th March 1951. Mr. Pawar received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering in the year 1972 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Mr. Pawar started his professional career with Larsen & Toubro Limited in June 1972 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee. He was with DCM Limited from October 1972 to September 1976, first as Management Trainee and later as Assistant Product Manager. He was with Hindustan Computers Limited during the period September 1976 to July 1981, first as Regional Manager and later as Corporate Planning Manager.
Mr. Pawar founded the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) Limited in the year 1981 and currently is its Managing Director. It is a publicly listed Information Technology Service Corporation. The company has offices in India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. In India, NIIT is consistently ranked No. 1 in Information Technology Education and is now No. 7 in the entire Indian Information Technology industry. NIIT became the first Indian Computer Training and Education Organisation to have received the International Quality Certification, ISO 9001 in July 1993. The overseas clients of NIIT include IBM, World Bank, Sun Microsystems, Sears, and others. NIIT is setting up subsidiaries in the US and Singapore to address the vast export markets in these regions.
Mr. Pawar has exhibited innovative abilities and deep insight into computer education. He has participated in major task forces and workgroups set up by the Government of India in the areas of Technical Manpower Development and Technology Development, playing a key role as an industry spokesman. He is a top management consultant to organizations for architecting their automation strategies. Mr. Pawar is a member of several leading national professional societies of computer software education, holding active positions in many of them.
In honoring Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar, we recognize the conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as an outstanding entrepreneur and a corporate leader who has earned recognition and through achievement brought glory to the name of the Institute.
