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| |name = Pradip Baijal | |name = Pradip Baijal | ||
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| '''Pradip Baijal''' is an officer of the ] (IAS) who retired as the chief of the ] (TRAI). | |||
| ⚫ | Baijal held several senior administrative positions in the Ministry of Finance and Industries at state level but first came into prominence as the ] secretary in 1999 and was part of the team that was involved in the disinvestment of various Govt companies like BP, VSNL, IPCL and Maruti. He is credited for the sale of Maruti which resulted in a Rs 1000 crore ] for the government).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/maruti-ipo-may-garner-rs-700-cr/70412/|title=Maruti IPO May Garner Rs 700 Cr|work=The Financial Express|accessdate=18 November 2014}}</ref> He retired as the Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in March 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/21baijal.htm|title=TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal retires|work=Rediff.com|accessdate=18 November 2014}}</ref> | ||
| '''Pradip Baijal''' is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service who retired as chief of the ]. He is a 1966 batch officer from the ] cadre. He is part a long list of IAS officers who have spent time at ] for specialised training{{Citation needed|reason=what special training and when?|date=December 2010}}. ], in an article in 2003 called him a storm-raiser{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}. | |||
| Post retirement, Baijal<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715111309/http://pradipbaijal.com/profile.html |date=15 July 2011 }}</ref> setup Noesis Strategic Consulting Company. | |||
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| == Education == | |||
| ⚫ | He was trained as an engineer before he joined the ]. Baijal earned his BE (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Roorkee; now renamed the ]. He took part in a one-year visiting fellowship at the ] on the Privatisation of Public Enterprise.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} | ||
| == Career == | == Career == | ||
| Baijal also pushed for ], under which an operator can offer telecom and broadcasting services on a single licence and next generation networks for Indian telecom sector that would bring down the network costs significantly. He is credited<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k6/mar/mar273.htm|title=Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Trai's Baijal ends tenure; Misra likely successor|author=Anil Wanvari|publisher=Indiantelevision.com|accessdate=18 November 2014}}</ref> with suggesting a reduction in ADC, a fee that private operators pay ] for compensating its rural operations, and its eventual withdrawal by 2009. | |||
| ⚫ | He was trained as an engineer before he joined the ]. Baijal earned his BE (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology |
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| Baijal has trained telecom regulators on behalf of the World Bank (Infodev) in Africa. He similarly works for ITU in Southeast Asia and has also undertaken restructuring of telecom regulation in Lao, Myanmar, and Oman, and has lectured ministers and regulators in Southeast Asia on reforms and regulation. He had also taken training classes on power regulation in 1999, in Vietnam. He is on the boards of Nestle, GVK, and Patni Computers, and advisory boards of the India Oil Corporation, Infrastructure Development Finance Company. For a few months in 2009, he was the chairman of an advisory committee to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board in India. He was Chairman of the ] (TRAI).<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715111309/http://pradipbaijal.com/profile.html |date=15 July 2011 }}</ref> | |||
| 'Pradip Baijal held senior administrative positions in the Ministry of Finance and industries at state level but he first came into prominence as the disinvestment secretary in the BJP Govt on 1999 and was part of the team that was involved in the disinvestment of various government companies like BP, VSNL, IPCL and Maruti. | |||
| ==Post retirement== | |||
| During his tenure, TRAI articulated and adopted allegedly pro-development and consumer-friendly regulatory practices and made important recommendations on the growth of telecom services in rural India to the Government of India. TRAI has also urged the industry to think of next generation telecom networks. Baijal, directly dealt with a variety of key issues impacting the telecom industry in India, including changes to the Access Deficit Charge (ADC) that punctured mobile phone bills. | |||
| Baijal spent a year after retirement writing the book ''Disinvestment in India - I Lose and you Gain'', published by Pearsons<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pradipbaijal.com/disinvestment_book.html |accessdate=18 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825012143/http://pradipbaijal.com/disinvestment_book.html |archivedate=25 August 2011 |title=Disinvestment in India - I lose and you gain | Pradip Baijal | Pradip Baijal Profile }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Books-and-Guides/Man-With-A-Mission.html |accessdate=22 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010025645/http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Books-and-Guides/Man-With-A-Mission.html |archivedate=10 October 2008 |title=Businessworld - Man with a Mission }}</ref> He also co-founded a strategy consulting firm Noesis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noesis.in/|title=Noesis Consultancy|publisher=Noesis.in|accessdate=18 November 2014}}</ref> with Niira Radia. He also serves on the boards of GVK, Nestle India and Patni Computers. He works as an independent consultant and advisor to several countries including ], ] and ]. He has recently self-published a book and released it on Amazon. "This is an honest account of the journey of one of India's finest civil servants .... and it is a clarion call to stop the witch hunt practices, otherwise Baijal might just be the last of his tribe to have the courage to carry out big and bold reforms. The India of today cannot afford this. " - Mr. Deepak Parekh | |||
| ⚫ | ==References== | ||
| He is credited{{By whom|date=January 2011}} with suggesting a reduction in ADC, a fee that private operators pay ] for compensating its rural operations, and its eventual withdrawal by 2009. | |||
| Baijal also pushed for ], under which an operator can offer telecom and broadcasting services on a single licence and next generation networks for Indian telecom sector that would bring down the network costs significantly. As a result of his work, the sector grew remarkably - from adding 0.2 million subsribers a year, the sector had added close to 20 million subscribers monthly by the time he retired. Shosteck, a research Group based in US wrote: “This study analyzes the Indian mobile market to understand the lessons that it might offer the rest of the world. It concludes that India’s “Unified License“ – with which any operator can offer any access technology, whether landline or wireless – has enabled for more robust competition than otherwise would be possible”<ref>http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/imt-2000/DocumentsIMT2000/TechnicalArticles2008/IndiaPaper_FINAL.pdf</ref>. | |||
| Baijal spent a year after retirement writing the book "Disinvestment in India- I Lose and you Gain", published by Pearsons. He also co-founded a strategy consulting firm . He also serves on the boards of GVK, Nestle India and Patni Computers. He works as an independent consultant and advisor to several emerging countries | |||
| == Controversies == | |||
| His tenure as TRAI chairman coincided with multiple policy changes that are alleged to have benefited some telecom companies, including ] and ]. | |||
| Pradip Baijal was the TRAI Chairman when the technology neutral "Unified Access License" was implemented, a policy change which allowed fixed line operators who had paid much lower license fees to offer mobile phone services, at first in the limited WLL mode (]) and later, following an out of court settlement between mobile operators and the BJP govt, full mobility. The change in policy took place after several rounds of consultation with the industry participants. | |||
| The TRAI, headed by Pradip Baijal at the time also made a controversial recommendation to the Group of Ministers in 2003, where he recommended a fixed charge of Rs.1658 crores as license fee for UAS (Unified Access License) without adjustments for inflation or market growth since 2001<ref>Scam Notes http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/24765/Scam+tones.html?complete=1</ref>. '''Pradip Baijal''' was also part of the team that was involved in the disinvestment of several government companies, along with Arun Shourie as Minister. Among the transactions he worked on was the sale of government owned telecom company ], that was sold to ], one of many clients of ], whose firm he later joined<ref>Did Pradip Baijal make a mistake in joining Niira Radia's firm? http://m.economictimes.com/PDAET/articleshow/7108777.cms</ref>. This raised questions of conflict of interest.{{By whom|date=January 2011}} | |||
| His houses and offices were recently raided by the ] as part of their investigations into the ]<ref>CBI conducts raids; swoops on DMK associates, Niira Radia & Pradip Baijal http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/CBI-conducts-raids-swoops-on-DMK-associates-Niira-Radia--Pradip-Baijal/articleshow/7108883.cms</ref>. | |||
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| Born | (1943-02-15) 15 February 1943 (age 81) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence(s) | Noida, India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee |
Pradip Baijal is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) who retired as the chief of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Baijal held several senior administrative positions in the Ministry of Finance and Industries at state level but first came into prominence as the disinvestment secretary in 1999 and was part of the team that was involved in the disinvestment of various Govt companies like BP, VSNL, IPCL and Maruti. He is credited for the sale of Maruti which resulted in a Rs 1000 crore control premium for the government). He retired as the Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in March 2006.
Post retirement, Baijal setup Noesis Strategic Consulting Company.
Education
He was trained as an engineer before he joined the Indian Administrative Service. Baijal earned his BE (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Roorkee; now renamed the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He took part in a one-year visiting fellowship at the University of Oxford on the Privatisation of Public Enterprise.
Career
Baijal also pushed for unified licensing, under which an operator can offer telecom and broadcasting services on a single licence and next generation networks for Indian telecom sector that would bring down the network costs significantly. He is credited with suggesting a reduction in ADC, a fee that private operators pay BSNL for compensating its rural operations, and its eventual withdrawal by 2009.
Baijal has trained telecom regulators on behalf of the World Bank (Infodev) in Africa. He similarly works for ITU in Southeast Asia and has also undertaken restructuring of telecom regulation in Lao, Myanmar, and Oman, and has lectured ministers and regulators in Southeast Asia on reforms and regulation. He had also taken training classes on power regulation in 1999, in Vietnam. He is on the boards of Nestle, GVK, and Patni Computers, and advisory boards of the India Oil Corporation, Infrastructure Development Finance Company. For a few months in 2009, he was the chairman of an advisory committee to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board in India. He was Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Post retirement
Baijal spent a year after retirement writing the book Disinvestment in India - I Lose and you Gain, published by Pearsons He also co-founded a strategy consulting firm Noesis with Niira Radia. He also serves on the boards of GVK, Nestle India and Patni Computers. He works as an independent consultant and advisor to several countries including Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. He has recently self-published a book and released it on Amazon. "This is an honest account of the journey of one of India's finest civil servants .... and it is a clarion call to stop the witch hunt practices, otherwise Baijal might just be the last of his tribe to have the courage to carry out big and bold reforms. The India of today cannot afford this. " - Mr. Deepak Parekh
References
- "Maruti IPO May Garner Rs 700 Cr". The Financial Express. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- "TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal retires". Rediff.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Anil Wanvari. "Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Trai's Baijal ends tenure; Misra likely successor". Indiantelevision.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- "Disinvestment in India - I lose and you gain | Pradip Baijal | Pradip Baijal Profile". Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- "Businessworld - Man with a Mission". Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- "Noesis Consultancy". Noesis.in. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
