Rajendra S. Pawar is the chairman of NIIT. He co-founded NIIT along with his batch-mate Vijay K. Thadani and with the active support of Shiv Nadar. Acknowledging his contribution to the IT industry in India, Mr. Pawar has been awarded the country’s prestigious civilian honour, Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2011.
He is a distinguished alumnus of Scindia School, Gwalior and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Rajendra S. Pawar is considered a great visionary and developer of human resource potential. He has played active role in instituting Quality processes and Crosby's Complete Quality Management System in NIIT. He is interested in foreseeing the trends and crucial directions in the deployment of IT for quantum change in organisation effectiveness. He is a member of the National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development. He heads the Quality Committees of various Industry bodies, including the South African President's International Advisory Council (PIAC) on Information Society.
As the Chairman of India’s IT industry body- National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in 2011-12, Mr. Pawar has led several ICT industry initiatives, giving voice to the sector’s aspirations and goals. Earlier as President of MAIT (Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology) during 1990-92, Mr. Pawar integrated its activities into those of other leading industry associations in India. MAIT played a significant part in shaping the IT policies of the Government of India during this formative phase. Known for promoting industry-academia alliances, Pawar has been working closely with the country’s well-known educational institutions. He is on the Board of Governors of India’s premier engineering institution, IIT Delhi; country’s first global business school, the Indian School of Business; and the Scindia School.
Pawar studied at the Scindia School, Gwalior and graduated from the country’s prestigious engineering institution, the IIT, Delhi in 1972 where he pursued the B. Tech programme in electrical engineering and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT in 1995. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University in 2005.
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