TIRUCHY: Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by NIT, Tiruchy, on Tuesday.
The award was presented in recognition of excellence in public administration by Pawan Kumar Singh, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchy (IIM-T) and G Aghila, Director, NIT, Tiruchy.
“I think I have received this award very early. Though I have more banking experience than the public administration, it is heartening to receive from my alma mater where I studied Chemical Engineering,” Thiaga Rajan said.
Along with Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Raj Iyer, CIO, US Army, Dr Ranga Godavarti, VP, Bioprocess Research & Development and Drug Substance Supply, Pfizer, USA, Seetharaman Narayanan, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Inc., Dr Karthikeyani AV, Deputy General Manager, IOC (R &D), Faridabad, Dr Murali Sitaraman, Professor, Clemson University, USA, Dr Jeyakar Vedamanickkam, Retd GM Aerospace HAL, Gopinath Kallayil, Chief Evangelist, Digital Transformation and Strategy, Google, Dr Karuppaiah N, Additional Director/Centre Head, NATRAX, Govind Iyer, Consultant/Partner, Egon Zehnder, Saumen Bhaumik, CEO - Eye care Division Titan, V Gopi Suresh Kumar, Director (Projects)/CMD (Officiating), RITES Ltd , Srinivas K, MD & CEO, India1 Payments Ltd, Shanmugharaj M, CEO, Acacia Communications, USA, Srivatsan K, Subhasri Pigments Pvt. Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, Karthikeyan Krishnaswamy, Promoter, K Ventures and Dr Ing-Srinivasan R. Centre for Sustainable Tech., Assistant Professor, IISc, Bengaluru, received the award.
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