An AVSM winner, with 34 years in the Indian Army, Major General Balasubrahmanian is today best remembered for being the founding secretary of the Computer Society of India in 1965. He passed out from the third course of Sir Arthur Hope College of Engineering (Madras University) now known as Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. This College was initially funded by the famous GD Naidu of Coimbatore.
During his tenure as president of CSI from 1969 to 1972, he charted the future course of action for the association. His tryst with IT had started even earlier when after the Chinese War in 1962, Balasubrahmanian was picked as a young major from Corps of Signals to head the computer center set up by the Defense Ministry. His subsequent roles included being the technical secretary of the Advisory Group on Computers in Defense as well as the EDP Director at DRDO HQ. In recognition of his services, he won the 'Silver Core' from the International Federation of Information Processing.
Courtesy: Dataquest
Founder Secretary Maj Gen A Balasubrahmanian
Request: We kindly request Maj Gen Balasubrahmanian to share with our readers the facets of IT growth in India. There is also an urgent need for the Armed Forces personnel to become computer savvy. What measures can be adopted from Training establishments to AHQ to input IT as vehicle of combat? Our Armed Forces websites need to move to web 2.0 technologies to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality in keeping with the RTI Act. How can we achieve this in the near future in spite of Bureaucratic hassles!
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