Vijay bhatkar

Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar was born on 11th October 1946 at Muramba, Maharashtra. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1972. He obtained his Master of Engineering in from M.S. University, Baroda, in 1968, and Bachelor of Engineering from Nagpur University in 1965 when he was barely 18!

For his contributions to IT in India, he was conferred with the PADMASHRI award in 2000, one of the highest civilian recognitions by the Government of India, the Maharashtra Bhushan Award 1999-2000, the highest recognition of Government of Maharashtra

Dr Vijay P Bhatkar is one of the most acclaimed IT leaders of India. He is best known as an architect of PARAM series of Supercomputers, GIST multilingual technology and Education-To-Home (ETH) mission. He is widely recognized for his noteworthy contributions in bringing ICT to the masses through a series of path-breaking initiatives. He is also credited with the creation of several national institutions, notably amongst them being the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) – India’s national initiative in Supercomputing; the Electronics Research & Development Centre (ER&DC), Trivandrum – India’s largest R&D Centre in application oriented R&D in electronics; the ETH Research Laboratory, Pune for launching Education-To-Home mission; the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT), Pune – India’s largest Post-Graduate Institute for advanced education in IT; and the India International Multiversity (IIMv) – an educational initiative for promoting the concept of integral education.