From RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan to Goa CM Manohar Parrikar: 10 famous IITians who didnt end up as engineers in India. (A MUST READ INFO). It is a dream for every Indian school child studying science in India to get into the prestigious IITs. The Indian Institute of Technology is a name that tops the list when you ask an engineering enthusiast about their future plans. The coveted engineering institute has produced some of the most famous Indians who hold responsible positions in Indian government. The IITs have not only produced the best engineers in the world, but also IAS officers and politicians. While Chetan Bhagat became an author, the Manohar Parrikar became the Chief Minister of Goa. From Dr. D Udaya Kumar who designed the rupee symbol to D. Subbarao, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, IITians have taken won accolades across the globe. A huge number of IITians are currently serving the government of India and youll find them all mentioned on this Quora discussion. Did you know these famous Indians studied at IIT? Raghuram Rajan: Raghuram Govinda Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India after taking charge of Indias central banking institution on 4 September 2013, succeeding Duvvuri Subbarao. Rajan was chief economic advisor to Indias Ministry of Finance during the previous year and chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2007. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering in 1985 and later received a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1987. He won Directors Gold Medal in IIT Delhi and was a Gold medalist at IIM Ahmedabad. NR Narayan Murthy: Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys. Murthy studied electrical engineering at the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore, and M. Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The Infosys co-founder has been listed among the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time by Fortune magazine. He has been described as Father of Indian IT sector by Time magazine due to his contribution to outsourcing in India. Murthy has also been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri awards. D Subbarao: Duvvuri Subbarao is an Indian Economist, Central Banker and Civil Servant. He was the 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India, who served under Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh. Dr. D. Subbarao is a 1972 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. On 5 September 2008, he was appointed the 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). His term was supposed to be completed in September 2011. But breaking from tradition, the Union Government of India issued an extension by 2 years until 4 September 2013. He graduated in Physics B.Sc (Hons.) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (class of 1969). He received an M.Sc degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Subbarao topped the Civil Services Examination in 1972 and was assigned the Andhra Pradesh cadre. Vinod Khosla: Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born businessman who is currently listed by Forbes magazine as an American billionaire. Khosla was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a company which created the Java programming language and Network File System (NFS) after his departure as founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s. It is said that Khosla read about the founding of Intel in Electronic Engineering Times at the age of fourteen and this inspired him to pursue technology as a career. He went on to receive multiple degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India (Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University (Masters in Biomedical Engineering), and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA). Manohar Parrikar: Manohar Parrikar has been the Chief Minister of Goa since 9 March 2012. Previously he was Chief Minister from 2000 to 2005. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and represents the Panaji constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Goa. Parrikar is a graduate in metallurgical engineering from IIT Bombay (1978). He is the first IIT graduate to become the Chief Minister of any Indian state. He was awarded by IIT Bombay with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001. Jairam Ramesh: Jairam Ramesh is an Indian economist and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. As a Member of Parliament, he represents Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam Ramesh was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he has been divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011. Ramesh graduated from IIT Bombay in 1975 with a BTech in Mechanical Engineering. Nandan Nilekani: Nandan Nilekani was the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). After a successful career at Infosys, he headed the Government of Indias technology committee, TAGUP. Nilekani received a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. In 1978, Nilekani had started his career at the Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems, where he first met N.R. Narayana Murthy who interviewed him too. In 1981, Nilekani, Murthy, and five others left Patni to start their own company, Infosys. Kiran Bedi: Once a powerful police official, Kiran Bedi is now a social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS. Kiran Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from the IPS in December 2007. After a Master’s degree in Political Science from Panjab University, and Bachelor of Laws in 1988 from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, she obtained a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Department of Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where the topic of her thesis was Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence. Dr. D Udaya Kumar: Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee sign. His design was selected from among five short listed symbols. According to Kumar the design is based on the Indian tricolour. He is currently an assistant professor at IIT Guwahati. He received his masters degree, an MDes in Visual Communication, from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) of IIT Bombay in 2003. He also completed his doctoral studies at the IDC, receiving his PhD in 2010. Raju Narayan Swamy: Raju Narayana Swamy is an officer in the Indian Administrative Service. He is Chief Vigilance Officer of Central public undertakings. A graduate in Computer Science from IIT Chennai, he turned down an MIT scholarship to pursue a career with the Indian Administrative Services. Swamy has 25 books to his credit. He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award for a travelogue.
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