eGov-Sept-2010-[48-49]-A Perfectionist Policy Maker

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ashis sanyal

A perfectionist policy maker

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Nurturing of an idea is more crucial than making strategies, feels Ashis Sanyal, Senior Director—e-Governance at DIT, Govt of India

etting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan,” the famous statement made by Tom Landry, the noted American Soccer Coach, is also the doctrine of Ashis Sanyal, Senior Director—e-Governance, Department

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of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Government of India. An ardent advocate of using technology for the masses, Sanyal strongly believes that one should not even start executing a plan till the process of planning is complete. “I am so obsessed with this thought that in my entire life, I could not go even go to

My Inspiration

The fact that society always moved forward with the sustained efforts put in by unsung heroes who never bothered to enjoy the outcomes

see a movie at a short notice, just because I had not planned for it,” Sanyal shares. Having started his career as an Indian Engineering Services (Electronics) officer in 1976, Sanyal soon joined the M/o Communications and later, Department of Electronics (now Department of IT), through an open interview in 1982. The decision, according to him, proved to be a pillar stone of his career and provided him the opportunity to handle various national-level projects in the areas of citizen-centric e-Governance program design, management and implementation, rural service delivery programs and implementation, and design of last mile connectivity policy, among others. Sanyal has been singularly responsible as mission leader for implementation of policy, planning, implementation and monitoring of the core e-Governance Network Infrastructure Program of USD 850 million—the State Wide Area Network (SWAN) for the entire country. He made vital contributions in


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