IIT Delhi celebrates World Telecommunication Day
G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant delivered the annual Bharti Lecture titled ‘India’s G20 Presidency: Building Consensus in a Fractured World- Frontier for Digital Cooperation’.
India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant delivers the annual Bharti Lecture at IIT Delhi.
The Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management (BSTTM) at IIT Delhi celebrated the World Telecommunication Day today, 17 May 2023. Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa and former CEO of NITI Aayog, delivered the annual Bharti Lecture titled ‘India’s G20 Presidency: Building Consensus in a Fractured World- Frontier for Digital Cooperation’.
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice-Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, and Prof Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi, were also present. Kant said it was India that created India Stack, a digital public infrastructure on open source software for a set of open APIs aiming to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale. The initiative ensured India’s continued growth and offered opportunities to accelerate inclusiveness, resilience, sustainable growth and have a new green development pact. As the India Stack is open and scalable, it can be applied by other countries to accelerate their digital transformation.
He said, “We are actually getting into global value chains in a very big way. And that will enable us to penetrate global markets. It is very important that whatever we do, we do it at a global scale to enable us to penetrate global markets..”
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He went on to add, “I am truly delighted that I am speaking on what I think has been India's huge achievement in our ability to become a technology layer and a technology leader in many ways. The Bharti School of Telecom (at IIT Delhi) will have to be the key driver of this transformation in India. And I really wish it all success and progress in the days to come. I take this opportunity to congratulate IIT Delhi and the Bharti Group for this very innovative partnership in creating this wonderful school here.”
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For BTech students at IIT Delhi, the highest international packages have historically reached up to INR 2 crore to INR 3.4 crore per annum, typically for sought-after roles in Computer Science and Quantitative Finance.
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According to the recent placement records of IIT Delhi BTech, the overall placement percentage for the BTech programme consistently ranges between 83 percent and 90 percent.
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