Pradip Baijal is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service who retired as the chief of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
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14 Facts About Pradip Baijal
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Pradip Baijal retired as the Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in March 2006.
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Pradip Baijal was trained as an engineer before he joined the Indian Administrative Service.
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Pradip Baijal earned his BE in Mechanical Engineering from University of Roorkee; now renamed the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
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Pradip Baijal took part in a one-year visiting fellowship at the University of Oxford on the Privatisation of Public Enterprise.
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Pradip Baijal 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.
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Pradip Baijal 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.
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Pradip Baijal has trained telecom regulators on behalf of the World Bank in Africa.
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Pradip Baijal had taken training classes on power regulation in 1999, in Vietnam.
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Pradip Baijal was Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
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Pradip Baijal spent a year after retirement writing the book Disinvestment in India - I Lose and you Gain, published by Pearsons He co-founded a strategy consulting firm Noesis with Niira Radia.
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Pradip Baijal has recently self-published a book and released it on Amazon.
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