The latest news about me is that I have left POWERGRID and joined Areva T&D Ltd. as Project manager-Telecom.

I am an Electronics and Communication Engineer working. I am 31 years old, married and lives in Faridabad. At present I am associated with the planning, design, detail engineering and installation of Optical Fibre Communication Network of POWERGRID for different regions of India.

I belong to Saba Pur which is a small but very developed village of Yamuna Nagar Distt. of Haryana. I was born to a farming family which is KAMBOJ by cast. I did my schooling from the only school (Govt run) at that time in my village. Then I did a diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from a college in Damla near Yamuna Nagar. After that I worked for one year in Chandigarh and took entrance test of S.L.I.E.T. (Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology) situated near Sangrur distt. of Punjab. Once again my luck helped me and I got a good rank (16) and hence took admission in B.Tech in the discipline of my choice which is ECE.

In the final semester of my course I saw an advertisement in the news paper for recruitment of fresh engineers, and as was our frequent routine those days I applied for the job. It is because of that application that I was in POWERGRID Corporation of India Ltd for seven years. After I left college, I could merely enjoy a couple of months of freedom before that letter of joining arrived. I did the one year training provided by my company and fortunately got a gold medal in it (Though it gave me nothing more than a sense of being proud of myself). After the training I was given a posting in LD&C (Load Despatch & Communication) deptt. of POWERGRID situated at Katwaria Sarai. In the mean time I took IES written test, passed it and then passed the interview as well and  was offered a gazzetted post in Prasar Bharti (State run TV company popularly known as DOORDARSHAN which is a Hindi translation of "Television"). For some time I was in dilemma whether to join that authorative post or remain in POWERGRID. On one side was good salary and the job of my interest(technical) and on other side was the powers of a gazzetted post. Eventually my interest won and I preferred to remain in POWERGRID. But slowly I felt that even I was not made for a job in POWERGRID, but something else. So as I said above I left POWERGRID and joined Areva.