Board of Directors

Director - (CFA) -Shri N.K.Gupta

Shri Naresh Kumar Gupta took over as Director CFA in BSNL on 1st June 2012. Shri Gupta is B.E. from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), in Electronics and Communications. He joined the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India through Indian Telecommunications Services (ITS) Group A 1978 batch. Since then he has worked in various capacities in different units of DoT/TEC/BSNL/MTNL and has versatile experience covering almost all the fields in telecommunications including installation, operations, development and management of telecom networks, sales and marketing and financial management etc.

Before joining as Director (CFA) on the BSNL Board, N K Gupta was working as Chief General Manager Punjab Telecom Circle in BSNL and prior to that he was heading the Information Technology division for CFA business unit of BSNL”.

He in the capacity of DDG (I) TEC was instrumental in framing specifications and Network architecture against which BSNL and MTNL have implemented their broadband Networks. He has represented DoT in many committees of TRAI, DIT, and also in various Inter-Ministerial Committees like committee on preparing encryption policy, E-Commerce and Information Security working Group. He has widely travelled abroad and represented India in number of UN & ITU meetings including World Summit on Information Society in Geneva and other important assignments.

He was an active member of Apex Committee involved in the planning and execution of NIB-II of BSNL and also framing the specification for ERP implementation in BSNL which is currently in progress

He was deeply involved in Pan-India Roll out of zonal OSS and BSS for Wire-line and Broadband segment which helped BSNL to changeover from decentralized 334 SSA level systems to 4 zonal data centres with implementation of world class COTS applications.

N K Gupta is also instrumental in conceptualizing BSNL entry in to the Data Center (IDC) Services business for opening up a new revenue stream by leveraging BSNL’s existing infrastructure with an innovative revenue share model. Presently BSNL is in the process of acquiring IDC business

As Director (CFA) BSNL, he is mainly responsible for improving the Systems and Methods to achieve optimal performance and maximum utilization of BSNL's extensive country-wide Infrastructure and network. He is also responsible for achieving business interests of the Company by way of high customer satisfaction and timely provision of quality services in BSNL CFA segment. He is also responsible for induction & adoption of new technologies and committed to provide state-of-the-art modern and world class telecom services in the highly competitive environment.