Rajendra Singh Pawar (Padma Bhushan awardee) is an Indian entrepreneur, chairman, and co-founder of NIIT Limited, established in 1981. He also founded NIIT University, a not-for-profit university in Neemrana, Rajasthan, in 2009.
Rajendra's contributions have been widely acknowledged and he has been conferred prestigious awards including ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ by IIT Delhi (1995), 'IT Man of the Year' by IT industry journal Dataquest (1998), ‘Madhav Award’ by the Scindia School (1999), and 'Master Entrepreneur of the Year' by Ernst & Young (1999) among others.
He has been a part of Prime Minister Vajpayee’s National Taskforce (1998), commissioned to develop India into an IT Superpower and has served as a member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s National Council on Skills Development (2009-2014). Mr Pawar is currently the Chairman of NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force that has been set up in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to see India emerge as a global hub of Cyber Security Products and Services.
Rajendra is a Fellow of the Computer Society of India, the National Telematics Forum as well as The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).
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