Ajay Mittal is working as Senior Deputy Director General in DoT headquarters looking after policy on licencing of Access Services and related matters as well as implementation of telecom security related policies.. Ajay did his Graduation in Engineering in Electronics and Communications in 1976 from the University of Roorkee (now one of the. Indian Institutes of Technology). Ajay also holds a Diploma in Management.. After working in the R&D wing of Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. for about two and a half years, Ajay joined Indian Telecom Service in the erstwhile Posts & Telegraphs Department (now Department of Telecommunications) in February 1979, and was posted as Assistant Divisional Engineer- Telecom.. In 1981, Ajay was given charge of setting up the ground segment of New Delhi Satellite Earth Station located at Sikandrabad (U.P) for INSAT – 1 series of satellites where he commissioned and then operated SCPC, FDM-FDMA Systems for voice communication as well as TV up linking, Radio up linking, meteorological data up linking and reception systems etc. He also set up the Network Operations Control Centre (NOCC) for INSAT.. Later Ajay was involved in setting up earth stations in remote and hilly areas of some states. As Assistant Director General (Satellite Planning) in the Department of Telecommunication headquarter in 1987, he was involved in planning of satellite communication systems. Thereafter, as Director Telecommunications, Ajay was responsible for operations and maintenance of a large Optical Fiber, Microwave, Coaxial and Satellite Communication Network in the State of U.P. In 1991, as Director in the headquarter of Department of Telecom, Ajay handled regulation and tariffing of telecommunications services. Ajay was responsible for activities relating to opening up of telecom sector for competition 1991 onwards. This included invitation of bids for basic services, mobile services, radio paging services etc. Ajay remained in this position for over 6 years. Subsequently, from 1998 onwards, as General Manager in U.P. (West) Circle of Department of Telecommunications, Ajay headed the Operations and Maintenance Wing, responsible for making policies in respect of operations of all types of services and ensuring that services are maintained as per desired Q.o.S.. Ajay was deputed to the headquarters of BSNL, a public sector unit under Ministry of Communications, as Deputy Director General (Network Management) in the year 2000 where for a period of about 7 years; he was in-charge of management of BSNL's international and national long distance switching and transmission network.. During this period, Ajay set up Network Management Systems, overlay managed signalling network, KU Band VSAT Network and country-wide Managed Leased Line Network. Ajay was also a member of the core team responsible for planning and implementation of Indo- Srilanka Submarine Cable System. Later, for a period of over two years, while on deputation to BSNL, Ajay worked as General Manager (Mobile Network Planning and Operations) in J&K State.. Currently, Ajay is working as Senior Deputy Director General in DoT headquarters looking after policy on licencing of Access Services and related matters as well as implementation of telecom security related policies.
