The Chief Executive Officer and CIO of Timetunnel Consulting, South Africa Dr. Gaurav Pradhan was awarded with “Hind Rattan Award 2010” by Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise, Government of India at 29th International Conference of NRIs.
This prestigious award is being presented for his outstanding services, achievements and contributions in IT Industry globally and keeping the Flag of India high. He is the first NRI from South Africa to be awarded this prestigious award.
Dr Pradhan was honored with this award on the eve of Republic Day, 25th of January 2010, at a glittering function in the presence of dignitaries from all over the world at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi.
Dr Pradhan has distinguished himself as an Entrepreneur, a Management Consultant, an Innovator and a world class Indian Professional.
Keeping in view his contributions in ICT Industry, teaching and research for more than 19 years, he was appointed as advisor to many African Government and Companies.
Research accomplishments of Dr Pradhan include Green IT, Micro Generation and commercial projects running on Off Grid Power. In his career of 19 years in more than 50 countries, he has been involved with and headed some of the biggest IT projects.
Dr. Pradhan designed the Timetunnel Green View and Timetunnel Unified Banking Engine. Both these solutions have near zero carbon foot print, operate on Off Grid Power and are based on FOSS Architecture. The TUBE can empower millions of people with affordable world class banking.
Gauteng Treasury hired him to develop a model that entails 15 provincial departments compiling their annual budgets on the web, online at real time. The project was the first of its kind in South African public sector. He led the project team from conceptualization, virtualization and development. With his high-level expertise, the project was adopted by the province at large and enabled on-line compilation, in time, less administrative processes, less costs. Recently he was heading the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa – PRASA SAP project.
