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Ministry of communication presents Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards to motivate telecom skill ecosystem New Delhi, Dec 19 (KNN) Communications Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad and MOS for Communications and Electronics & IT, Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre has presented Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards including cash award of Rs 50,000 and Rs 30,000.

The presentation ceremony organized in Electronics Niketan, CGO Complex, New Delhi, in presence of Members of Digital Communication Commission, AS (T) and other senior officers of DoT on 18. 12. 2020.

To motivate the Telecom Skill ecosystem, DoT launched Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards scheme in 2017, to reward the successful telecom skilled people for their special contributions in the areas of Telecom Skilling, Telecom Services, Telecom Manufacturing, Telecom Applications in deploying telecom dependent sectoral solutions for different fields such as agriculture, commerce, health, education etc.

The award was named after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay ji to commemorate his birth centenary. The nominations were called for the first time for year 2018. The winners of the award were declared by Dept. of Telecom on 8. 9. 2020.

Sreenivas Karanam, Bangalore was selected for the FIRST prize for his contribution in developing a cost-effective customized technical solution under the brand ‘C mobile’, for deep sea communication, operating along the Kerala coast, facilitating communication among fishermen and issue of weather alerts etc .

The service enables the fishermen to have one-one voice calls, group calls, SMS, Location services and Emergency services while they are out of GSM coverage area. The service is available fr0m Thiruvanathapuram to Calicut, almost 500km along Kerala coast, with devices installed in nearly 900 motor boats.

Prof. Subrat Kar, New Delhi was selected for the second prize for his innovative solution on development & deployment of a large scale sensor network and devices to avoid train-animal collision, which works without interfering with natural movements/behaviour of animals, thereby helping in wildlife conservation. The system under pilot phase, is installed in Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand, to prevent elephant deaths by train-elephant collision.

Both the Ministers appreciated the efforts of both awardees in leveraging the telecom technology through their innovative ideas for the benefit of fishermen and in wildlife conservation.

MoC while interacting with Karanam, opined that that the system can be made operational in coastal areas of other states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha so that more fishermen can be benefitted as it is successfully operating along Kerala coast.