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Duties of Officers & Employees 1. Dr. (Mrs) Neena Pahuja, Director General

Head of ERNET India.

2. Mr. Meharban Singh, Sr. Director

1. Consultancy in the area of LAN, WAN and Campus Wide Networking at Educational Research

Institutions

2. Feasibility surveys related with projects on LAN, WAN and Campus Networking.

3. Design of LAN, WAN and Campus Wide Networks

4. Formulation of Tariff structure for ERNET services

5. Preparing and submitting proposals for Setting up turn key projects on LAN, WAN and Campus

Wide Networking at Educational Research Institutions

6. All activities related to training in the area of Computer Networking and its Security

7. Conduct and coordination of training on Computer Networking and Security

8. Interaction with our users all over the country regarding training in the area of networking and

projects related with LAN, WAN and Campus Wide Networking

3. Mr. B.B. Tiwari, Director

Looking after R&D projects

1. Setting up Nationwide QoS-Net test bed

2. Making proposal of European Commission funded projects

3. Installation of NOC (Network Control Center)

4. Proposal of R&D projects

5. Testing and benchmarking of new technology/products in ERNET

4. Mr. Bhupal Singh, Registrar & CPO

1. All administrative matters of the society i.e., appointment on deputation basis and on contract

basis, promotion cases, completion of probation period, cases of resignation etc.

2. Work relating to procurement of all technical/non-technical equipment required for ERNET

India and also in connection with various projects like UGC, ICAR, IIT Madras, JNU, IIPA etc.

3. Preparation of agenda & Minutes of the Governing Council/Annual General Meeting of ERNET

India.

4. Policy Matters

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5. Liaisoning with DIT for building maintenance and security matters.

6. Release of Payment of telephone bills, medical reimbursement cases, tuition fee, newspaper bills

and other bills for purchase matters.

7. Work relating to printing of Annual Report and other printing matters

8. Matters relating to re-constitution of Executive Committee and Governing Council

9. Work relating to Stock Register and Asset Register

10. Work relating to codification of assets as per Asset Register

11. Signing of agreements with our PoPs and also signing of agreements in connection with

providing connectivity to various institutions.

12. Work relating to FCS promotions of Group „A‟ and below Group „A‟ employees.

13. Authorized as one of the signatories to sign the cheques of the society.

14. CPIO

5. Mr . Vipin Aggrawal, Chief Finance Officer

All financial matters of the society- ( functions- as per Delegation of Power and Rule & Regulations)

6. Mr. D. K. Barman, Senior Manager

1. Managing terrestrial Network including Radio Links and Leased Line Links of ERNET India.

2. Establishment of Terrestrial Links for ERNET India including co-ordinating with MTNL/BSNL

and with other leased line provider.

3. Co-ordinating with users for establishment of links under different schemes like UGC Infonet,

ICAR Net, AICTE Net and other users which are not covered under any schemes.

4. Liaison with BSNL/MTNL for any link related with issues.

5. Configuring Modems/routers to be sent to user sites.

6. Sorting out of user account related problems.

7. Co-ordinating with ERNET PoPs for Managing Terrestrial Networks.

8. Terrestrial Network Operation: Looking after terrestrial network operation of ERNET. It also

requires coordination with POPs for all operational need. Upgradation of Internet gateway

bandwidth is also part of the operation

9. R & D Projects: Also involved in implementing R&D and Engineering projects being given by

DIT.

10. Planning for infrastructure: Also plan for upgradation of infrastructure to meet future requirements

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7. Mr. Praveen Misra, Senior Manager

1. Nodel Officer for IPv6 activities

2. Head of Hosting Infrastructure

3. Principal Investigator of eduroam

4. Principal Investigator IPv6 Lab

5. Business Development and Solutions

6. Customer Assurance

7. Projects, Training and Consultancy 8. Mr. Avanindara Singh, Senior Manager

Coordinating the activities of ERNET VSAT Hub which includes the following:

1. Operation and maintenance activities of VSAT Hub and remote VSAT sites.

2. Upgradation of Technology as well as Infrastructure of Hub and VSATs.

3. Installation of New VSATs.

4. Management of Transponder space allocated to ERNET India by DoS and Carrier planning.

5. Traffic monitoring of VSATs and Gateway links.

6. Technical support to the users.

7. Preparing proposals for various projects such as CIC-VV, NVS Net etc. 9. Dr. A. Pavanthan , Senior Manager

Looking after all activities of ERNET Bangalore Centre.

Principal Investigator and Incharge of R&D projects in Bangalore

10. Mr. Gajanan Pimparkar, Director

Looking after all activities of Special Projects and IoT National Policy. 11. Mr. Gulshan Kumar, Section Officer Administration

Supervising following activities:-

(A) i) To process for procurement of various Technical and Non-Technical equipments through

the process of open tender / limited bids.

ii) Preparation of Tender Document.

iii) Booking of Air/Rail tickets.

iv) Maintaining of records of EMDs / Security deposits etc.

v) Preparation of Purchase Orders.

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vi) Processing of Bills for payments.

(B) i) Maintenance of Non- Technical Stores/Stock Registers, issue of stationery and verification

of stock.

ii) Administrative action relating to AMC matters in respect of all technical/non-technical

equipments.

iii) All matters relating to Telephones i.e. booking, bill payment, reimbursement of

residential telephones etc.

iv) All matters relating to Mobile Phones i.e. booking, bill payment, purchasing etc.

v) Printing of various reports/newsletters etc.

vi) Maintenance and Upkeep of premises.

vii) Administrative action relating to Gen. Set. and ACs.

viii) Repairing of furniture, fixture and electrical work etc.

(C) i) Coordination with various Purchase Committees.

ii) To coordinate meetings of Governing Council/Executive Committee.

iii) To coordinate PoP activities.

12. Ms. Nirmal Marwah, Manager

1. Administrations and Maintenance of Different Webservers.

2. Administration and Maintenance of Different Websites hosted at ERNET India.

3. Development and Maintenance of various website hosted at ERNET India

4. Management of different projects under the group 13. Ms. Tejal Tiwary , Junior Scientific Officer

1. The Complete Domain Registration Procedure for registering the Domain under. ac.in, res.in and

edu.in at under ERNET at as well as at NIXI.

Domain Name Registration

Renewal of Domain

Modification of Domain

2. Office Automation : Administration and Maintenance of LAN Servers, first level hardware and

software support to LAN Severs, LAN Printer as well as LAN clients (more than 100 Nodes)

and complete security of LAN as well as the various issues related to Office Automation

ERNET India 14. Ms. Dimple Bammi, Junior Scientific Officer

Following are the duties being performed by me:

a. Preparation of proposals for the prospective users.

b. Coordination for shipment, installation and commissioning of new VSATs under various

schemes.

c. Coordination of activities with Hub.

d. Supporting the VSAT users for resolving their problems and queries.

e. Coordination with NOCC, DOT & WPC for monthly reports & payments. 15. Mr. Ranjan Kumar, Senior Scientific Officer

1. System & Network Administration

Managing all day-to-day activities of Delhi PoP and coordinating with all other ERNET PoPs.

Liasoning with Basic Service Operators (MTNL/BSNL, Powergrid etc.) and other vendors for

smooth functioning of ERNET services.

Managing all India routing and monitoring the Internet traffic for ERNET network.

Managing and Configuring Routers, Switches, RAS and Firewall at Delhi PoP.

Managing Interlink radius server, creating dial-up users & maintaining the record of Dial-up

user‟s Internet usage.

Managing Compaq Alpha ES40 digital Unix Server & Linux Servers.

Managing and Configuring Netscape Messaging Server, Netscape Directory Server & Sendmail.

Coordinating with CMC Ltd for implementation of the EMS application like NNM, HP

operation manager, HPOV Manager, Interlink Radius server, ISM and Symantec Security

products

1. Countrywide Allocation of IPv4 addresses for ERNIC (ERNET Network Information Centre).

Countrywide Incharge for allocation of IP addresses to ERNET customers & configuring reverse

domains. Also I am the hostmaster & corporate contact person on behalf of ERNET for online

updation of APNIC database for IP addresses & reverse DNS entries .

2. Countrywide Domain name registration under “ac.in, res.in, edu.in & ernet.in” Responsible for the

domain registration under ac.in, res.in, edu.in & ernet.in.

3. BGP Multihoming of ERNET: Responsible for setting up BGP Multihoming at various locations of

ERNET with different upstream provider e.g. VSNL, Data-Access, Bharti and NIXI. Also

responsible for any routing problem at various PoPs.

ERNET India 16. Mr. Anupam Srivastava, Senior Scientific Officer

a. Providing technical support for Broadband, DAMA, SCPC VSAT connectivity problem,

Firewall installation/configuration, video multicasting, network traffic/protocol analysis, LAN

setup etc. at ERNET Hub, Bangalore and providing technical support for VSAT

installation/connectivity problem at remote site

b. Coordination with VSNL, STPI, Bangalore, Bharti Reliance etc. for the installation of Internet

Gateway at Cisco Gateway router and doing remotely configuration and monitoring of Gateway

router and other Cisco routers at Hub, Bangalore.

c. Handling Domain Name Registration for VSAT users and doing allocation of WAN and LAN

IP addresses for VSAT users and providing technical support for LAN, Internet browsing, e-

mail etc. problems of VSAT users

d. Posted under and duties assigned by Mr. Meharban Singh, Sr. Director

17. Mr. Arvind Sukhla, Senior Scientific Officer

Posted under and duties assigned by Mr. B.B. Tiwari , Director

18. Mr. Mohd. Owais , Junior Scientific Officer

Posted under and duties assigned by Mr. Dilip Kumar Barman, Senior Manager

19. Mr. Ram Prakash Pandey , Junior Scientific Officer

Posted under and duties assigned by Mr. Gajanan Pimparkar, Director

20. Ms. Meenakashi Rai Bhatia , Accounts Officer

21.. Mr. Narender Namrani, Section Officer

Billing of all types of connectivities, handling user grievances, issuing receipts to users including domain

users, Maintaining Receipt, Payment and FDRs Registers, providing assistance to auditors, Node budgets,

expenditure approval etc, reconciliation of accounts. Liaison with Bank, Filing of returns for Service Tax

and Sales Tax. Issue of Utilization certificates e 22. Ms. Anju Rakheja, Assistant

1. Maintenance of Imprest and petty/urgent expenditure out of imprest and purchase of items from

open market;

2. Purchase of furniture items and its payments;

3. Arrangements for various meetings e.g. Booking of accommodation, refreshment, working

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lunch etc. including tea/coffee for staff members;

4. Centralized Diary/Dispatch including courier service and its payments;

5. Hiring of Taxi and release of payment thereto;

6. Maintenance of Photocopies/Vending Machine and its consumption register etc. and release of

payment thereto.

7. Purchase of News Papers/Magazines and its payment;

8. Maintenance of files;

9. Purchase of stationery and Computer consumables and its payment;

10. Matter relating to Printing of Stationery items such as Visiting Cards, Envelops, Letter heads,

File covers etc.;

11. Purchase of reference books for Personnel and Administration and its payment.

23. Mr. K. Subramanian, Assistant

Looking after the General Administration work.

24. Ms. Leena Rajput, Assistant

To attend telephone calls Drafting letters and notes of routine nature. To maintain reminder dairy for

bringing up cases on the stipulated days To maintain the filing system of the division. To maintain

Management Information System(MIS) of users/debtors. Browsing general email account of section and

sending reply to the emails. Preparation of list of users for half yearly returns and monthly statements for

depositing service tax in Government treasury. Any other work assigned from time to time by my officer

and senior colleagues. In addition to above I am maintaining personal files & engagements of my

Reporting Officer. 25. Mr. Naveen Kumar Fagna, Assistant

1 Coordination activities in technical wing.

2. Preparing proposals for ERNET connectivity received from Universities/Institutions and

providing information to prospective clients of ERNET with regards to tariff, terms & conditions

etc.

3. Processing of bills for payment received from MTNL/BSNL/VSNL and other service providers

Leased Line link etc.

4. Processing of requests received from PoPs for purchase of technical equipments.

5. Providing Performance Monitoring Report of ERNET to TRAI and Users list of ERNET

to DoT on quarterly basis.

6. Opening of files for technical wing and keeping records of their management

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7. Any other work assigned by officers.

26. Ms. Jasvinder Kaur, PA- Posted with Director General

1. Taking dictations and transcribing them

2. Typing work

3. Attending visitors and incoming and outgoing phone calls

4. Handling the classified documents

5. Keeping the record of engagements, meetings etc. and reminding the officer well in time.

6. Keeping record of all the files / papers

7. Maintaining personal file of the reporting officer

8. Any other work assigned by reporting officer and senior colleagues from time to time

27.. Ms. Sunita Chawla, PA

1. To take dictations and transcribe them.

2. Draft typing of letters, notes etc. and fair.

3. Preparing and sending fax messages

4. Maintenance of dispatch register.

5. Dispatch of letters, invoices to various users of ERNET India

6. Preparation of slips of personal claims

7. Giving typing assistance to the dealing hands of section in the various works.

8. Computerized diarising of movement of files / letters and distribution within the section.

9. Maintenance of leave records of the section.

10. Preparation of lists relating to different users.

11. Any other work assigned from time to time by my officer and senior colleagues. 28. Mr. R. Kesavan Technical Assistant

Posted in ERNET Bangalore Centre

29. Mr. Anuj Sahani, Junior Assistant

Working in General Administration

30. Mr. Mohit Bansal, Junior Assistant

Working in Personnel Division

ERNET India 31. Mr. Roshan Patil, Junior Assistant

Working in finance Division

32. Mr. Naresh Radoliya, Hindi Stenographer