{"id":1553,"date":"2023-08-08T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=1553"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:45:58","slug":"sushil-kumar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/sushil-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushil Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sushil Kumar<\/strong>
Deputy\u200b Director General (IoT), Telecommunication Engineering Center, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communication, Government of India\u200b
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Mr. Sushil Kumar is an officer of the 1987 batch of Indian Telecommunication services (ITS) and joined Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India in 1989.\u00a0He has done his bachelor in Electronics & Communications Engineering in 1987 and Master in Computer Science & Technology in 1989 from University of Roorkee (presently known as Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee). He is working as Deputy Director General in Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) and heading the Internet of Things (IoT), division from 2013. TEC is the National standardisation body (NSB) for telecom and related ICT sector in India. Prior to this, he served in the field units of DoT (from 1989 to Sept 2000) and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) (from Oct 2000 to 2011), as a head of business units and districts for around 22 years and responsible for planning, execution and operation & maintenance of telecom networks having fixed line, Cellular and OFC networks. In his current role, he created framework for finalizing specifications in M2M \/ IoT domain with multi stakeholder\u2019s participation and released 14 Technical Reports in the last 4-5 years, with the outcome intended to be used in policy \/ standards. He chairs National committees in TEC [National Working Group \u2013 20] to coordinate with ITU-T Study Group-20 on IoT and Smart Cities & Communities; and in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to coordinate with ISO\/IEC JTC1 SC41 on IoT and Digital Twin. He participated as a head of Indian delegations in the meetings of these international organizations. ITU-T Recommendation Y Suppl. 53 (12\/2018) on IoT Use Cases; and Y Suppl. 56 (12\/ 2019) on Smart City Use Cases are having significant contributions submitted from India in his leadership. He also chairs TEC Consultative Committee for adoption of oneM2M specifications transposed by TSDSI, resulting the adoption of oneM2M Release 2 as National standards. He participated in around 125 National \/ International conferences, Faculty development programme and training programmes on IoT, 5G, Smart cities, Digital transformations and related topics; as a speaker, moderator and Chair.\u200b<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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Ministry of Communication, Government of India\u200b<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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