Former DoT Secy JS Deepak joins Airtel

Former telecom secretary JS Deepak has been appointed by Bharti Airtel as Group Director for Policy and International Strategy. The 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre was telecom secretary from June 2016 till March 2017, when he was abruptly transferred to the Department of Commerce. He was attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in his capacity as telecom secretary in March 2017, when his transfer orders were published.

Barely a week before Deepak was transferred out of the telecom department, the telecom commission, which is the highest decision making body of the DoT, under his chairmanship had written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,