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**Indian Telecommunication Service**
Service Overview
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Training centre	National Telecom Academy and Advance Level Telecommunication Training Centre(ALTTC)
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The Indian Telecommunications Service, widely known as ITS, and earlier known as 'Telegraph Engineering Service Class I'(TES Class I)is an organised civil service of Government of India

Government of India

The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

. The appointment to this service is done through Combined Engineering Services exam held every year by Union Public Service Commission

Union Public Service Commission

The Union Public Service Commission is the central agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of India. The agency's charter is granted by the Constitution of India...

(UPSC) of India. ITS is a Group A Central Civil Service of the Union of India. The service was created to meet the technical and managerial functions of the government in areas related to telecommunications.The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) had been run for years by this permanent cadre of technical civil servants called the Indian Telecom Service (ITS).

The officers of ITS are working in senior management and administrative positions in the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is a state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a provider of broadband services...

(BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI),Telecom Dispute Settlement Administrative Tribunal (TDSAT), Unique Identification Authority of India

Unique Identification Authority of India

The Unique Identification Authority of India , is an agency of the Government of India responsible for implementing the AADHAAR scheme, a unique identification project. It was established in February 2009, and will own and operate the Unique Identification Number database...

(UID), Central Vigilance Commission

Central Vigilance Commission

Central Vigilance Commission is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. It has the status of an autonomous body, free of control from any executive authority, charged with monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government of India, and...

(CVC) etc.At present, ITS officers are also working in many other central and state government assignments on deputation.

Recruitment and induction

A competitive examination called combined engineering services examination is conducted by the UPSC for recruitment to the ITS. Recruitment to Group A and Group B Services/Posts are made under the following categories of Engineering:

I. Civil Engineering

II. Mechanical Engineering

III. Electrical Engineering

IV. Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Appointments to ITS are made in category IV, i.e., Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. The appointment to following services are also made through the same exam:

Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers
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Indian Railway Stores Service
Indian Railway Stores Service
The Indian Railways Stores Service is a cadre of the Government of India. The officers of this service are the procurement and logistics specialists, contract managers on the IR, providers of logistics for the transportation of material from and within various railways as well as the planners and...

(Telecommunication/Electronics Engineering posts)
Engineer in Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing
Wireless and Planning and Coordination Wing
The Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing is a branch of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India. The department is responsible for issuing amateur radio licenses and allotting the frequency spectrum and monitoring the frequency spectrum...

/Monitoring organisation; Ministry of Communications
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is an Indian government ministry. It contains three departments:*Department of Telecommunications*Department of Information Technology*Department of Posts...

(DOT)
Indian Ordnance Factories Service (Engineering branch) (Electronics Engineering posts)
Indian Naval Armament Service (Electronics Engineering posts)
Central Power Engineering Service (Telecommunications Engineering posts)
Survey of India Service
Survey of India Service
The Survey of India Service is a cadre of Government of India who prepare the Survey of India.-Description:The members of this service are responsible for the planning and execution of engineering surveys and meeting the mapping needs of the country. Direct appointment to the service is made on...

(Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering posts)
Assistant Executive Engineer, Group A (Electronics Engineering posts) in the Corps of EME, Ministry of Defence

Training

After recruitment through Combined Engineering Services Examination, the officers undergo a two years course at Advanced level telecommunication training centre (ALTTC), Ghaziabad and Bharatratna Bhimrao Ambedkar institute of telecom training (BRBRAITT),Jabalpur for management and telecommunications engineering. The officers are also deputed for on job field training in various areas.The ITS officers were trained at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration is a research and training institute on public policy and public administration in India...

(LBSNAA) until 1980.

Department of Telecommunication has set up a new training centre named as "National Telecom Academy" at Ghaziabad for its officers belonging to technical cadre i.e. ITS and TES.

Appointments and responsibilities

As in the other Central Services, the officers are liable to be transferred and posted in anywhere in India. The officers of ITS work in the DOT, TRAI, TDSAT, BSNL, MTNL,Ministry of Home Affairs,UID,Ministry of Power,Department of Pharmaceuticals, Department of Defence, National Highway Authority of India, RITES, IRCON,TCIL,UPSC,SSC and various other Ministries and Statutory bodies of India.

The following officers of ITS are currently working in high positions :

R. K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL
R. K. Agrawal, Director, BSNL
R. Wadhawa, Director, BSNL
A. K. Garg, Director, BSNL
A. N. Rai, Director, BSNL
K. Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, MTNL
S. P. Pachauri, Director, MTNL
R. K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, TCIL
V. K. Sharma, Director, TCIL
Vimal Wakhloo, Director, TCIL
R. K. Arnold, Secretary, TRAI
TRAI
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is the independent regulator of the telecommunications business in India. -History:...
Mr. M K Shedha, Chief General Manager, Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management (CETTM)

Present(2009) cadre strength in different time scales is given below:

Grade	Position In The Central Government	Strength
Apex Scale	Member (equivalent to secretary)	2
Higher Administrative Grade+ (HAG+)	Advisor (equivalent to Additional secretary)	1
Higher Administrative Grade (HAG)	Chief General Manager/Senior Deputy Director General	61
Senior Administrative Grade (SAG)	General Manager/Deputy Director General	659
Junior Administrative Grade (JAG)	Deputy General Manager/Director	957
Senior time Scale (STS)	Divisional Engineer	151
Junior time Scale (JTS)	Assistant Divisional Engineer	01

Cadre controlling authority

Member (Services), Telecom Commission of India is cadre controlling authority of ITS, Group A. Member(Services)is ex-officio Secretary to Government of India. S. C. Misra is currently working as Member(Services) , Department of Telecom, Government of India

Indian Telecom Service Association

The officers of ITS are represented by the Indian Telecom Service Association in different forums. N.K.Chhoker and A.S. Meena are currently president and secretary, respectively.

Honours

Many members of ITS are awarded by many national and international organisations for their significant contributions.Few of them are enlisted below,

1.Shri G.B. Meemasi was the first ITS to receive Padma Shri

Padma Shri

Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...

for his work in Electronic Switching in DOT.He was the founder Director of CDOT and father of RAX. Shri SM Agarwal(Secretary DOT) and Shri P.S. Saran(Member Services) were other subsequent recipients, from ITS.

2. Dr.T.H.Chowdary was awarded the L.V.Ramaiah award in 1989 for distinguished service to society thro’ telecoms. He was conferred a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is a university, primarily focused on engineering, located in Hyderabad, India. Founded in 1965 as the Nagarjuna Sagar Engineering College, it was established as a university in 1972 by The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Act, 1972,...

, Hyderabad in 1999 for distinguished service to engineering, education & IT services.He was one of the eminent five Engineering Personalities who were felicitated by Institution of Engineers

Institution of Engineers

The Institution of Engineers is the national organization of engineering professionals in India. IEI has over 0.5 million members from 15 engineering disciplines in 99 centres/chapters in India and overseas; it is the largest multi-disciplinary engineering professional society in the...

(India), at its Fifteenth Indian Engineering Congress, on 19 December 2000, in Hyderabad.He was the founding Chairman and Managing Director of India’s Overseas Communications Corporation (VSNL). From May, 1997 to May 2004, he was the Information Technology Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, in the rank of a Minister of State. He has authored number of books on telecommunication, to mention a few;

Are You Listening?(The story of his struggles in the DOT to deliver service and not merely administer rules)
Right Number; Cheap Service, Telephones Unlimited(Play on how telephone services are administered)
We the Telephone men in your Service Delineation of the duties, functions and work of DOT’s telephone employees
From America to Andhra(Plays with telegraph & telephone services as themes) (Telugu)
The Tales the Telephones Tel(Telephone Cheppina Kathalu in Telugu-First persons narration of telecom persons while on duty)
Telephoning Rural Areas of Andhra Pradesh
Information and Communication Technologies into the New Millennium(Talks on All India Radio: August and September, 1999)
Issue in Telecom De-monopolisation in India(compilation of 70 articles appeared in Computers Today from 1994 to 1998)
P-Telcos in India – Why did India get them so wrong?(Running Commentary on analysis of the liberalization, demonopolisation and independent regulation process for Telecommunications in India)
Information & Communication Technologies for Classes and Masses
India Under Strain (compilation of 70 articles)
India! Speak Up!! (Compilation of 60 articles)
India Explorations (Compilation of 57 articles)
India Under Assault – Series I
Aallochinchandi (Compilation of 55 Articles in Telugu)

3. Dr D.P.S Seth is a former member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and he has also been chairman of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).

4.Mr.Prithipal Singh was the CMD under whom the GSM got to a flying start in BSNL.

5. Mr. P. C. Gupta has written a book on 'Data Communications And Computer Networks'.The book is useful for all telecom professionals.The book is published by PHI and EAN number is 9788120328464.

Retirements

Many ITS officers will be retiring from government service shortly on attaining current superannuation age of 60 years. Year wise retirement position is given below,

Year	Number of officers retiring
2011	30
2012	44
2013	50
2014	51
2015	56

External links

MB Athreya,January–February 1996,Chairman of the Telecom Restructuring Committee, Government of India (1990–91).'India's telecommunications policy:A paradigm shift' Telecommunications Policy Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 11–22
'DOT sets deadline for ITS officers' India Telecom,Vol.11,No.1,January 2005, page 3

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