Sam Pitroda - A Dreamer | Skoch Challenger Lifetime Achievement Award - Part 1

Mr Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission | SKOCH CHALLENGER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2009:
For a man who had never even used a telephone till he was 22 years old, Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, better known as Sam Pitroda, is credited with bringing the telecom and IT revolution to India. He left a reasonably successful business in the US to come back to India to serve the country. Through his mantra of indigenous manufacturing,shared access, rural telephony and using the power of young talent, he made the rural telephone exchange and the Public Call Office PCO - at every nook and corner of India happen. He was the founding father of Centre for Development of Telematics C-Dot. Competition from C-Dot ensured India getting one of the cheapest costs per phone line from global companies. He laid the foundation of the new telecom policy and brought in modern management practices through technology missions.He was instrumental in helping kick-start software exports from India and providing economies of scale to computer manufacturing in India. He served India at a great personal cost. On behalf of the ordinary people of India, we salute the extraordinary work of Sam Pitroda through the Skoch Challenger Lifetime Achievement Award.

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[nitin2201]

Thank you very much for uploading this kind of video rather than any actor or actress video who do nothing for country as compared to this kind of man.....

[chocmocco]

@khayaalipulao

Bhenchod, this is a fuckin logic that our Govt has implanted in the minds of idiots who repeat it. Your fuckin bastard rajiv gandoo was a traitor and a mass murderer of Tamils and Sikhs and machod u r no different from him.

[HARPAULSANDHU]

sam patroda

words are not there to praise people like you

[chipsnsalsa12]

@dhroovam he is my great uncle

[chipsnsalsa12]

@nvpaul hey, im not sam, but he is my great uncle, i will tell him to read this comment

[nvpaul]

Hello Mr. Sam Pitroda... Do you know what had happened to the STD Booths in the Telecom Revolution. Most of them Traffic Drugs now.... Very pathetic... None of you worry about the next step... Very sorry to say this

[khayaalipulao]

@chocmocco so what did you do for india recently, 'chocmocco'? I call people like you NATO: No Action, Talk Only. Shut up, and go back to your life.

[martyr732]

He derserves to get BHARATHA RATNA he is the one who changed telecom sector which boomed and gave good income to BSNL and government

[chocmocco]

@dhroovam That Rajiv who sold Lives of Bhopal to American companies for commission? Stop acting like an bootlicker of fake gandhi family who is using fake surname to fool Inidans like u.

[dhroovam]

@nitin2201

Rajiv really recognized Sam's potential. The next turn the BJP and leftists were afraid of him, portrayed him as a CIA agent and made him flee..

Sam, Pls come back and be with us. We are proud of you!

[dhroovam]

@thyagarajesh

India is so fortunate to have sons like Sam.