Presently Shri Jha is Deputy Director General (International Relations), Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India. He is a councilor from India in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council. He is the Vice-Chairman of 2009 Session of ITU Council. He is also on the board of Directors of TCIL (Telecom Consultants India Ltd.).

He did B-Tech in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta. He had been recipient of Centre of Advanced Studies National Scholarship as well as National Scholarship. Before joining Department of Telecom as an ITS officer, he worked as Senior Scientific Assistant, National Test House, Kolkatta under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and as a Scientist B in Explosives Research and Development Laboratory, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Pune.

He worked as Divisional Engineer (Internal) in Ahmedabad Telecom District and maintained internal as well as external plant of Telecom Network of Navrangpura Telephone Exchange. As Divisional Engineer (Rural) and Divisional Engineer(Planning) in Patna Telecom District he had been responsible for planning Telecom network and dimensioning the exchanges. As Deputy General Manager, MTNL Delhi he had been maintaining the external plant network of Central and Jorbagh areas, very important localities of Delhi. Also worked as Director (Engineering and Network Planning) in TEC and has been instrumental in formulating National Plan for ‘Switching’ and ‘Routing’. Also, forecasted the TAX capacity both of level I and Level II of all the Secondary Switching Area including MTNL Bombay and Delhi. Further, he worked as a Director (OSP), DOT and had been instrumental in formulating guidelines for the registration of Call Centers under OSP categories. Also organized India National Pavilion in ITU Telecom Asia, Hong Kong in the year 2002, ITU Telecom World in Geneva in 2003 and Supercomm in Atlanta in the year 2003.

As the General Manager (Corporate Sales and Business Development) in MTNL Delhi he had been promoting MTNL’s services to the commercially important customers in the highly competitive markets. As the nodal officer of MTNL he has been coordinating with the Embassies, PMO, MEA, Ministry of Finance, NDMC, MCD, Government of Delhi etc. He had been instrumental in formulating various tariff plans to beat the competitions.

Presently, Shri Jha is working as Deputy Director General (International Relations) in the Ministry of Communications & IT. He is the nodal point for coordinating with the International Organizations like ITU, APT, CTO, SAARC and bilateral issues with the other individual countries. As an expert, he represented the country in APT Forum in the Seminar on ‘Introduction and Implementation of IMT- 2000’. Availed ITU’s APT fellowships and participated in the Telecom Development Symposium during ITU World 2003 event in Geneva. During the course of work, he visited countries like Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain, Singapore, China, Tunisia, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, etc.

He took very active part in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference -06 held in Antalya, Turkey during 6-24 Dec. 06 and canvassed for India for getting India elected as Council Member of ITU and also for election of Indian nominee as one of the Radio Regulation Board of ITU

As a nodal point of Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India, actively participated in the 2007, 2008 & 2009 sessions of ITU Council Meeting held in Geneva. He has been the Vice-Chairman for the 2009 sessions of ITU Council Meeting. Also attended World Radio Conference (WRC-07) and World Telecom Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08) held in Geneva and Johannesburg respectively. Elected as Vice-Chairman of RPM for WTDC-09 and also chaired the Management & Budget Group of ITU Council in 2010. Shri Jha was instrumental in signing of an agreement between Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India and ITU for effective co-operation between the Telecom Centre of Excellence of India and ITU. He also participated in the High level delegation led by Secretary (Commerce) as a special emissary of Hon’ble Prime Minister to Democratic Republic of Congo in June, 2008.