Rajendra S. Pawar

Rajendra S Pawar is the chairman of NIIT. He is a distinguished alumnus of Scindia School, Gwalior and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He co-founded NIIT along with his batchmate Vijay K. Thadani and with the active support of Shiv Nadar. Rajendra S. Pawar is considered a great visionary and developer of human resource potential. He has played active role in instituting Quality processes and Crosby's Complete Quality Management System in NIIT. He is interested in foreseeing the trends and crucial directions in the deployment of IT for quantum change in organisation effectiveness. He is a member of the National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development. He heads the Quality Committees of various Industry bodies, including the South African President's International Advisory Council (PIAC) on Information Society.