Purging rogues out of Parliament

The late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Exactly 28 years ago, our country had witnessed one of the most unfortunate days in the history of independent India. It was a Tuesday on May 21, 1991, when we lost former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a leader who gave a new direction to India's journey into the 21st Century. His brutal assassination had plunged the country into deep and inconsolable mourning.

Rajiv Gandhi is rightly described as the 'Father of Information Technology and Telecom Revolution of India'. In 1984, he invited Sam Pitroda, who had become a naturalized US citizen, to return to India and attempted to modernize India's telecommunication system. The facility of telephone was limited to a few areas and confined a very small population. With a visionary approach, Rajiv Gandhi established the Centre for Development of Telematics (CDOT) in August 1984. C-DOT, an autonomous telecom R&D organization, developed state-ofthe-art telecommunication technology and revolutionized the entire communication network in the country triggering a PCO (Public Call Office) revolution connecting the people with the outside world...
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